Kick-in-the-Shin... or A Pat-on-the-Back Starter

For health or vanity or wealth

or need or greed or others or self?

What fuels your fire?

What kicks-starts your engine?

Who puts the bounce in your step…if you’re truly, brutally honest?

BTW, there is a robin outside my window singing in the dark before dawn!

Suddenly, the thought of spring sets panic pulses racing,
in spite of winter to-do lists still untouched unfinished...

However, instead of beating ourselves up for what we don’t accomplish, 

how about a pat on our backs for what we have done! 

We are so good at berating and belittling ourselves because, let’s face it;

we know exactly who we’re looking at in that mirror! 

Pretending is pointless!  

Let’s make the most of what we hold

In spite of what is not

The guerdon that pours moment gold

Is the best we have got

Before the door to nevermore

Swings shut on soundless hinge

Let’s make the most of Bygone’s host

At life’s buffet…let’s binge!

With humble, earnest honor, dear

Let’s not fall prey to fears

But make the most of now and here

Before it disappears

© Janet Martin

 Ecclesiastes 7:14
In the day of prosperity be happy, 

But in the day of adversity consider-- 

God has made the one as well as the other 

So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.