When Pleasing is Painful, For You

• We Have To Learn to Accept
• Manage, Tolerate, Cope
• with our disappointments, no regrets
• when I was younger than twenty
• I met this gorgeous woman
• felt a little something between her and me
• went to tell my Friend, but instead
• found her crawling naked out of his bed
• frozen, well he and I still remained friends
• but anger, humiliation and disappointment
• would never let me speak to her again
• then there was my Father and me
• he was a technician
• so, to show, pride, I, as his son
• was not attrition, but an addition
• why, my Brother had a crack addiction
• but, me, I wanted to give something back
• when I walked, got my engineering degree
• I was so happy, called him to share my glee
• only to have Him speak these words
• Don’t Step On me
• I still feel the pound of how profound
• that sudden stop, knocked me down
• but I learned, out of a thousand tries
• 999 will beat me to the ground
• but I am always getting up
• Always and in All ways, on the rebound…R.D.Revilo

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