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Red and Green Lights
by larry r linville → (All Poetry by larry r linville)
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I was lucky this morning as I hit all the stoplights when they were green. I'm sure tomorrow they will all be red.

 

 
Some days the lights seem only red
other days they’re always green
I guess it really makes much sense
that most days they are in between.
 
We remember our frustrations
when those stoplights make us wait
because those are the exact days
when we’re always running late.
 
Those green lights give us amnesia
and we just can’t seem to recall
driving through those intersections
smoothly traveling to the mall.
 
Life is full of red lights and green
as we travel on life’s highway.
Some days we stop more than we go
while we drive along each byway.
 
The secret of happy living
comes by not fretting when it’s red.
Instead we need to use that time
by planning what is ahead.
 

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 Reviews of "Red and Green Lights"
Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on August 30, 2011
Hitting the Red and Green Lights is all part of the journey and you have expressed your thoughts quite nicely.

Cheers,
Dan

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on August 30, 2011
The secret of happy living - and you tell it well.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on August 29, 2011
Kinda like, "somedays you are the bug, somedays the windshield"...e


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