Then, Get on With it...

 Poetics Aside Prompt: Use the last line of yesterday’s poem for the first line of today’s poem.

And then,

Get on with it…

When you have begged forgiveness

…do not return again, again

To grieve those despised failures

Preserving self-pity’s pain

But learn from it and move on

For this, my dear is life

We dance, we slip and stumble

Within its joy and strife

And we would be proud; boastful

Without truth reminding us

That there is none who have not erred

So do not sulk, or pine or fuss

But simply learn its lesson

Ask forgiveness, reflect a bit

But then, my dear, forgive yourself

And just get on with it…

© Janet Martin