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A Lesson
by Jerry P. Bolton → (All Poetry by Jerry P. Bolton)
Wednesday, July 25, 2018    Rated "G" by the Author.
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 Midday is as black as midnight,
Silence so loud it hurts your ears.
Do not ask your maker for light,
Dark and quiet comes from your jeers.

Leave your gods and deities be,
Beg not for a godly way out.
You are the cause of this, you know,
Each man his prison brings about.

If it is paradise you seek,
Try living your life so it fits.
A light will shine, words will be spoke,
And out of this jam you will get.

©March 14, 2017 / Jerry Pat Bolton


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 Reviews of "A Lesson"
Reviewed on August 14, 2018
Precise and very practical poem, direct to the point. We reap what we sow, we are how we think.

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on July 26, 2018
Nice write Jerry, full of truth.

Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 26, 2018

You're right. Why not live the good life now how you can. What's stopping any of us? Nothing really.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on July 26, 2018
We make our own paradise, or we make our own hell, and sometimes we fall into a rut, and become comfortable with the way it fits. Cool poem.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on July 26, 2018
"If it is paradise you seek,
Try living your life so it fits."

That just about says it all, a great line in an otherwise intriguing poem.

Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on July 25, 2018
Wise words. We complain about our lives going wrong, but we don't realize it's our own doing. God doesn't want to hear our complaints but see our good deeds.
Thank you.

Reviewed on July 25, 2018
Outstanding write full of wisdom that I'm sure many can learn from. You are the master of telling it like it is!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed on July 25, 2018
I really like this.

Reviewed on July 25, 2018
Very powerful write, Jerry! I'm sure this speaks to some who have had paved their own ways in life and are quick to identify themselves in your poem. It is never too late for those to learn this lesson in life and identify their own mistakes. You give the most powerful life's lesson!

Sandie

Reviewed by Lark Pogue
Reviewed on July 25, 2018
It is just too bad that some of us have to get old to realize this. Very insightful, Jerry

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on July 25, 2018
Well said. I've always held, "we create our own reality" and thus no one is responsible for getting one out of a stuckedness but the one who created the situation that led to the stuckedness. Thus, little, if at all, victimization to wallow in. You've offered, in my judgement, another version of my own thinking. Kudos!


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