Don't kill me yet 462 b

God please

Don't kill me

Yet

This voyage that you have sent me on

It is one incredible phenomenon

It only took me 80 years

To give up all my stupid fears

I learned a lot in the last decade

It makes me even  more dismayed

Now I know I'll never know

What I don't know but before I go

One thing I can now see clearly

Be grateful kind and love life dearly

God please

Don't kill me

Yet

COn traditions 462a

Be at home

With your

Contradiction

Sometimes in the course of my day

The plans that I laid windup in decay

Most of the time I can see my good fortune

I have been served such a generous portion

Once in a while

Without any style

I wine and complain

From a whole other brain

But this is the hand that I was dealt

So I'll play it with awareness & stealth

Be at home

With your

Contradictions

Robert De Ropp

Fearless 462

Fearless

Or just

Stupid

Looking back at all the roads I've tread

I gayly question what was wrong with my head

I would launch a plan without a thought

And almost always wind up distraught

While licking my wounds I'd start something new

And learn some more about what not to do

But once in a while lady fortune stepped in

And I would bring in the hay with a big happy grin

Good luck is when skill and opportunity collide

Dive right in and don't be denied

Fearless

Or just

Stupid

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Learning 461c

Develop a yearning 

For

Life long learning

All of human knowledge

Not just what you learned in a college

Doubles in less than a year

IBM says with all our new gear

That it will soon double every 12 hours

That will give us incredible new powers

The curious have never had it so good

There's so much more to be understood

Knowledge is good but skill rules today

It's what you can do not what you say

Develop a yearning

For

Life long learning

Health 461b cc

Health is wealth

Study and implement

What you learn

Optimum health is a worthy goal

Without it you don't have much control

The most important ingredient is knowledge

The kind that's rarely taught in any college

Get lots of sleep and eat fresh food

Laugh, sing and stay in a good mood

Exercise for strength stamina and flexibility

Always be open to a new possibility

Planning, purpose and many good friends

Will help keep you healthy until it all ends

Health is wealth

Study and implement

What you learn

Future 461a

Am I creating a future

Or just

Shovelling consequences

Almost everything we do

Puts in motion something new

Or maybe that's just more of the same

But there's no one else for us to blame

Think carefully about repeat actions

Most of the time they're just distractions

Much is possible but only a few

Choose wise actions and follow through

Everything that we have today

Is just past decisions on display

Am I creating a future

Or just

Shovelling consequences

Now 461

Now

Now is the time to pay strict attention

I will do it fully without apprehension

Now is the time that everything happens

I'll peacefully watch and quell all my passions

Now is the time that I can learn new things

And dig the well from which wisdom springs

Now is the time that I can train myself

To be kind, grateful and share my wealth

Now just once I'm going to die

I'll feel peace and love as I say goodbye

Now