To
Learn
Hope
springs from learning,
Vision
from insight,
Progress
from effort--
The
burden's not light.
Still
it makes a good habit,
To
learn from the start,
And
a mind used to challenge,
Is
a friend to the heart.
Be
selfish in learning,
You
alone pay the price,
But
share what you know,
And
it pays you back twice.
One
passage through life,
Is
all that we get,
Take
note of life's wonders,
And
leave no regret.
The
Inner Voice
It's
sad that Eddie Bertrand
Lost
contact with the voice
That
carries such bright promise
In
youth to give us choice.
Long
ago he was attentive to
His
world of inner dreams,
A
world that others called, "unfit"
And
tore apart its seams.
"Someday
I'll build a sailboat,
Explore
the open sea!"
"Boy,
you know that's dangerous;
That
silly dream can't be!"
"I'll
start a business enterprise...
To
operate in outer space!"
"Forget
that stuff. Grow up, get wise--
You
lack the nerve in any case!"
"Great
mysteries remain unsolved!"
"There's
no payoff in that, Eddie--
Get
real, young man, apply resolve,
Find
a job that's good and steady."
Discouragement
was all he heard--
"You
don't have what it takes to win!"
And
once his dreams appeared absurd,
They
never materialized for him.
Long
before he was a man,
The
little boy grew old;
Mugging
voices overan
His
own to turn dreams cold.
Explore
your own true dreams;
Define
what you can be.
Dreams
fulfilled along the way
Create
your destiny.
An
Infant's Footprint
Of
the child who left
This
print,
We
see before us
Just
a hint,
Except
we know
That prints like these,
Foretell
Great possibilities!
©
Charles Albano, 1997, All Rights Reserved.
Please
visit Charles' site
http://adaptive-leadership.com
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©
Charles Albano, 1998. Published with permission of the author who
reserves all rights. To Learn, initially appeared in the author's
website, Adaptive Leadership, 1998.
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