A Birthday Poem

Ethical Striving #10,000

 

　

Trepidation

Fear

Anxiety

Money

Writing

Baby Steps

Baby Step #1

Between

Life Sucking

Fear and

Cocky Brazenness

Now

 

What would Baby Steps be?

How do you tell a story without

Jumping into it?

How can you wade into the water

Without getting your toe wet?

 

It’s a long worm that has no turn.

The blues is always vamping.

Expect nothing and you shall not be disappointed.

With God all things are possible.

Be of good cheer.

 

Walking the line

Working the line

It’s just repetition:

Flipping a trout a thousand times

You won’t be afraid

 

Straight up and fly right

Get on the right track, baby; tell the truth!

 

Jog 10,000 miles

If you don’t break

It will be a way of life.

 

Write 10,000 pages

If you don’t

give up

If you don’t

die

Maybe you can be a writer?

 

Once again swimming over 10,000 feet

Unless you become as a little child

You shall not be born again

 

A change of life is required

How? God alone knows.