Views in Verse on 'the importance of chance'

Chance

Chance is your weapon in life
To willfully ‘have a go’
If you’re not willing to ‘break that mold’
You’ll never ever know
Just how full your given life can be

Time is a bandit
With no comfort spared to share
Expecting us to confront ‘our lot’
‘Step outside the square’;
Contentment’s most accessible to the free.

The wary, far too often
Are frozen by reserve
Window’s close too quickly
A slave to one’s own nerve
Making it far too easy to forget...

‘Down the road’ they will challenge
Through much more seeing eyes
“Did you chance to chase that prize …?”
“Take the risks that realize…?”
“No remorse …no excuse …no regret”.

From my desktop Grahame J Flynn Views in Verse

Views in Verse on - finding one’s self again

Views in Verse on - finding one’s self again
The Discovery

Got on a train, without destination, didn’t know where I wanted to go. In a bid to change my life into something new, perhaps something others wouldn’t know...

Why are we so afraid to be the best that we can be? Is discovery some kind of sin? What we’ve already done, doesn’t need redoing; transformation begins within.

More questions than answers at first it seems; as I plumb the depths of my very being. Getting to know one’s self is an unknown path in what ‘you’ really find most appealing.

Questions rolled into more questions; bewilderment at first can leave one aloof; But joy in life is there for those who command it: it begins with an inner truth…

'Please yourself' in order to best please others, don’t present what they best want to see. Happiness is found in being yourself; not as a harlequin copy of me.

Embrace the contradictions; don’t hide behind the given; Seek out the undiscovered borders, don’t create an invisible prison.

Confidence comes from knowing yourself, shaping your own destiny. The worst that can happen, the very worst, is finding you might be content 'just as me'.

Surrender complete to what gives you delight; find that elusive star. But you won’t need to jump on a run-away train, the answer is right there where you are.

Only by letting go… fearlessly… and then falling to your feet. Will you find that: within yourself is all that you need to be complete.

A paradox though, it must be stated, as a lot of people say: the greatest joy is in the many little things, they already do ...each and every day.

From my desktop – Grahame J Flynn, Views in Verse