Success
and failure
All
as my partners in life
From
moment to moment;
A
day may start with brightness
Like
the cloudless sunrise,
The
eye of the mind then sees the day ahead
With
hope and cheerfulness,
Every
task I tackle to win
Every
challenge I manoeuvre to overcome,
At
the end of the day
I
scream hurrah!
A
bright day may turn gloomy
When
all tricks fail
The
eye of the mind then appears faint
Like
trying to strike a snake
Armed
with a stick
And
a weak spotlight
In
a moonless night
I
struggle to succeed
But
I am challenged
Like
a blind boxer
Who
can’t see his target
Then
chance may put my target
To
my advantage
And
then I strike once
And
finish the challenge
Again
I scream hurrah!
A
bright day may end without warning
When
chance create an accident
To
leave scattered pieces of flesh
All
caused by chance
And
no time allowed for manoeuvre
All
the efforts of years are stopped
Without
consultation
Chance
again may save the body from death
But
leave the person to suffer forever
As
life returns
Hurrah
may be said gradually
Day
after day in crescendo
Culminating
when all pain is gone
The
eye of the mind
May
see happiness or sorrow
Through
those we love or live with;
We
get entangled to each other
Like
creeping plants in a forest
Challenged to win happiness
But
too entangled to part from each other
On
a bright day we laugh together
But
the eye of each mind
Is
secretly poised against each other
Like
an angered cobra
Waiting
for the moment
To
strike the fatal challenge;
Happiness
may come to some
When
the fatal blow succeeds
The
mind then rejoices
When
it sees the pain caused,
The
eye of the mind
May
be fuelled with impatience and jealousy
To
scheme others into failure
So
that happiness may come as they fail
Or
happiness may come
To
feel one is the only one;
What
a strange partnership
In
happiness and jealousy!
All
minds have eyes
Which
improve through learning
So
learn to better the world
Others
learn to destroy the world
And
common to all efforts
We
pursue happiness.
By Everett Standa
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