PAD 2014 #22 Optimistic and Pessimistic Poems

Two for Tuesday

MISGUIDED OPTIMIST

Some days I wake up and I’m all full of hope

I climb out of bed with a leap

I run down the stairs full of vigor and pep

And fall at the bottom in a heap

I immediately jump up

Dust myself down

And get back to the streak I was on

But I go back to bed when I open the box

And find the last doughnut is gone

WORD TO THE WISE

I’ve heard it said by many a one

that to ward off any bad luck

you expect much less than you might otherwise

and then things never really can suck

I’ve heard it said by many another

that it’s good to expect only the best

like a magnet you act to draw great things

and of course you get nothing less

But, I think it’s good to plan just a little

it’s good to dream a whole lot

it’s best to combine them with luck and good will

and mix opportunity into the pot

then you have to have courage

to ignore any snags

the will to keep moving on through

pessimists usually give up right away

optimists always CAN DO!