It takes great patience
And much planning
To do absolutely nothing,
But to do something about it
Requires no effort at all.
That which is not yet written in stone
Will never So much appear on stone
Unless we write it ourselves.
The past is the start of a great novel
But the future-a chapter
Not yet written.
We cannot lead
If we are always two steps behind.
We cannot lead the blind
With no sense of direction.
God may yet save
The man who calls upon his name
Success may crown
Through every last endeavor
Of life's own embrace
God forbid he rid himself
Of even the abscond few
Who so visits upon
Life's own error.