Tag: Resilience

The Choice

What forged you?
What special event?
Have you been
shaped in adversity?
The failures, losses?
Setbacks, defeats?
Is suffering a tool
in this earthly school?
Has the rug been
pulled from under you?
Done something
Wrong in a past life?
Is it all part of
the web of things?
Wonder why
you are here?
Or do you have the
joy of surviving and
relish the question:
If you had the chance,
would you do it
all over again?

© 1974, Kenneth Koziol. All rights reserved.

There’s a Time (then)

There’s a time I listened to my parents
Thinking I’d learn to obey.

There’s a time I listened to my nanny
Thinking I’d learn to play.

There’s a time I listened to my pastor
Thinking I’d learn to sow.

There’s a time I listened to my teacher
Thinking I’d learn to know.

There’s a time I listened to my foreman
Thinking I’d learn to labor.

There’s a time I listened to my comrade
Thinking I’d learn to neighbor.

There’s a time I listened to my leader
Thinking I’d learn to heed.

Then came the time to listen to myself
I found that is all I need.

© 1973, Kenneth Koziol. All rights reserved.