Success it exciting and brightens
the day -
makes you all cheer, “Hip, Hip, Hooray!”
It’s a pop of a cork,
and explosion
of “Yes!”
whenever you smell
the sweet smell of success.
People say, “Well done! We knew all along
that you had it in you and now you have won!”
A pat on the back makes you taller than tall
now you’re a winner
and no longer small.
“Wow, that’s amazing!” your friends will all say,
they’ll make you a hero on YOUR special day.
You’ll wear a grin like the big Cheshire Cat,
but you’ve worked so hard
so no problem with that!
Success is that something
that knocks on your door
gives you a thrill -
like nothing before.
It stays like a house-guest
a weekend, a month
until it’s all over,
and down, with a bump.
So when Success comes
have a joke and a laugh
a flash in the pan
or a long, winding path.
Whether it stays for a day
or a year,
Success will not change you,
of that I’m quite clear.
And when you look back on Success
you are blessed
with memories of triumph;
hard-won happiness.
And if it’s the kind of success that I know,
‘Twill be like contentment,
and not there for show.
WHISPERS OF THE HEART is artist and author J. Allen Wilson's second book of poetry.It can be autographed and shipped within 48 hours of order. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
(Self-published. Please contact author directly to order.)
Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into
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