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Success

6/7/2010

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 Clouded peak obscure from view

Mediocrity might have to do

If ascension joins the few

Why procrastinate and stew?

Journey’s start with single step

Steady work and promise kept

Others climbed while I have slept

Making me feel quite inept

From the mountain you’ll look back

To clouds of doubt and courage lack

Rocky slopes and storms of black

Will appear along the track

Success is grand, the view is great

Ignore the comments others make

Fuel the fire each step to take

Find for yourself…just what’s at stake

So take the plunge, start the trail

Don’t let sidelined friends derail

Goals just waiting to prevail

You will succeed…you will not fail!

David Kettler

Brett was asked in class to write a poem about climbing the mountain of success. I found it difficult to give him direction or advice on how to, or what to write. Very early in the morning, around 4:30 AM, I wrote this one. I think writing poetry is a bit like climbing the mountain. You start at the bottom, you stumble and work at it and eventually you write things that you yourself enjoy reading. This poem very much came out of my own experience of both the mountain top and also the clouds below. You can also say that it has a spiritual and financial application as well. From the valley to the mountain and back down again the path of life seems to lead. I like to think that no matter where I am in life, the mountaintop is the goal. Looking up where the sunshine, fresh air and great view are. I hope someday that my boys enjoy writing. Beautiful writing and reading are like beautiful music, they seem somewhat timeless.



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