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Holding On While Letting Go

Poetry

This is a collection of poems I've been writing since September of 2013 about various topics--my life, the world, love, things that are important to me, meaningful to me. What will they mean to you, if anything at all? Will my efforts have been in v...

Trip

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by silverlynx216

by silverlynx216

Trip

I'm trying hard to run quite fast,

Trying to learn from mistakes in the past

"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

I can't count the people who have told me how

I've come so far, I can't give up now,

But in this race I'm running, I'm struggling to beat it.

Sometimes, I don't pay attention,

And sometimes, I forget to mention

That I have fallen many times before.

I don't look out in front of me

For potholes that are hard to see,

And I end up falling to the cold, hard floor.

I really should be watching more

For things I didn't catch before

And I really should try not to make mistakes.

There are things that will deceive

And will try to make me believe

That they're real, not actually what they are--fakes.

But sometimes, I do trip and fall

Because I lack effort instead of giving my all

And of that, error is where I am found.

True, it can be frustrating,

But fixing an error's illuminating

And much more fun than falling face-first on the ground.