It is what it is
you take the rough with the smooth
you come from the land of no guarantees
imposed problems by the colourless mirages
is sanctification of one recognized authentically edifying
average merits no attention for lower expectations are mutable
what is a man if not the sum of his substance in insubstantial throes
we live in interesting times using the flames of dragons as cig lighters
owning guts to travel and toil, made gilded mind and a fortress heart
It is what it is
I have not cried a drip
except at death or the loss of deserved enterprise
my sweat made me and I make of me what me earned cleanly
Unfettered I knew the love of fair maidens who knew the exceptional
not a chancer nor a dreamer but he of amazing grace with a purpose
more than able to stand shoulder to shoulder with peers yet wit extra
courted no shame bore no grievance to each its own lets laissez-faire
It is what it is
I signed no contract with adversity
yet can work within its terms as what it is is what it takes
I pay dues never borrower or pilferers so show me my inadequacy
what is pain and anguish thrown from it incumbents alien to me
when I have sojourned where notables tread and laurels are earned
played like a child once and in due I long put away childish things
I know no fear, fear fears me for I tame ghosts make them restless