G'Day all,
I have always been passionate about Mens’ Health and just recently wrote a poem about Persistence. I thought I would send it to ‘Beyond Blue', an organisation that always leads by example, ‘talk’s the talk and walk’s the walk’.
Hopefully, this humble Ode might resonate with one person who might be doing it tough right now and thinks there is no end in sight.
ODE TO PERSISTENCE
Can you hear it in the distance?
Past the willows and the trees
Through the rain and misty valleys
On the tide of aqua seas?
Like a camel in the desert,
You go searching for a drink,
But that shimmer’s just a glimmer...
Into dust, your hopes do sink.
Still, you climb that lofty mountain,
Up amongst the rocky crops
Your legs are tired and weary,
And the struggle never stops.
Then you float along the ocean
Life-raft bursting at the seams.
But the drifting lasts forever,
And it never meets your dreams.
How much longer can you take it?
Will you ever find the key?
Your internal voice reminds you,
There’s a place you need to be.
You try and make your own luck,
As the time keeps ticking by,
Because you know your dream is worthy
So, you give it one more try!
With a soul in search of wisdom
You’re committed to the truth,
And soon you start to realise...
That all you need is proof!
Like a dancer chasing answers –
waltzing proudly down the road
Then you ask yourself the question -
What's the moral of this ode?
And a light comes shining brightly
As it’s whispered in your ear -
Keep on pushing forward friend...
Success is very near.
