Persistence
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Persistence as an incentive kept to keep,
One motivated to dream...
With this wished success.
Is just one significant ingredient to apply.
By one knowing,
Their direction and path taken...
Is not a surprise.
If their efforts to endeavor,
Remains focused and tried.
With kept faith not denied.
To one with persistence,
Comes those times...
When sacrifice is tested.
And an uninvited procrastination arrives.
Like a sweet talking demon,
Throwing a wrench into a wheel...
Delaying one's journey to stop their drive.
But this to permit,
Is a personal argument one knows...
Can and should be ended quick.
Remembering,
It is the dream that is the mission.
And not unsolicited opinions,
Awakening a doubt one can do without!
'Out you damn spot.
Negativity whispered in my ear?
Is a wasted attempt.
Am I making that clear?
I am not a doubting Thomas!
From me?
Disappear.'
'You don't have to be so determined!'
'Whatever!
You demonstrate reek of self adulation.'
Who allowed these demons,
To roam the World? Whenever...
And wherever they please.
They must have been unionized.
Anyway...
Persistence?
Persistence is a repetitious undoing,
Of appetizing on excuses to make.
And to hear them less innovative,
Than my grandmother use to create.
When making a deep dish peach cobbler.
To tell us,
Using pears would taste the same.
'Clever, grandma.
Even though,
We know you didn't have peaches?
You put your foot in these pears.
So delicious.'
If your dream wished,
Is kept as an oath to pledge?
Proving nothing to anyone.
But yourself?
How and what others may or may not think...
About your mission to complete successfully?
Is your decision to keep,
Your business to become...
As successfully to achieve the impossible,
To believe and see.
Needing no one to be convinced of it.
Since the evidence of that proof,
Is in the doing with persistence!
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Submitted by lpahtillah on November 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,844 |
Words | 381 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14, 7, 1, 2, 13, 5, 13 |
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