LIFE

I've decided to use this forum to post my Poetry from my very first poem I ever wrote to the latest ones.

Poetry has been my way of self expression and emotional venting since adolescence.  So there are some that are dark and some that are odd, and out there, and some that just make no sense at all, accept to me.

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I wrote this one a little while after the first one in my last post.  It was written during one of many sleepless nights when I could'nt turn my mind off enough to go to sleep.

Most of my poetry is written on nights like that.  So here it is, my second ever poem, I called it simply, "Life".

FYI, not all my poetry is this up-beat.  Poetry is a very personal expression of one's feelings about things at the time so as you'll soon see, I was a Love sick, thoughtful, and often very depressed teenager.

LIFE

You live your life through

Just day by day

Facing life's troubles

To solve them some way

But then when those troubles

Start bringing you down

If you don't take control

In life you can drown

Talking to someone

That's one thing to do

It's good to have friends

Who will listen to you

But then there's those friends

Who don't seem to hear

You want understanding

Not answers to fear

For though people's problems

May all seem the same

To each different person

It's all their own game

understanding advice

Is good just to give

But it's you who decides

Just how you will live

It's you who decides

Just who you will Love

And it's you who decides

Just who you will shove

You make your own choices

On what you will do

Throughout your whole life

It's all up to you

It's true there are times

When it seems there's no choice

But you choose what to say

When you use your own voice

To learn to live happy

Is the ultimate goal

Life's like a big play

So now choose your role

If you deal with each problem

With these thoughts in mind

You'll find in the end

That Life could be kind

L.R. Waldon Jr.

© 1984