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Poetry
Pearls
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
a word to the wise —
always easier after the event. don’t you think?
what else can one say. be wise. wise-up.
be honest. wise in ways only the owls know.
a judicious sage of all you’ve come to learn and practise.
but above all. trust your natural instincts. for
i have been that wise person. arriving early. wise
beyond my years. as someone once stated — horse-sense.
snuffled out the whys. and wherefores. always. until they
galloped it away. those untrustworthy ones. who found me
completely bundled-up. within my blanket of vulnerability.
where ignorance is bliss. it is somewhat folly to be unwisest
to their deceitful games. dishonesty’s default. but now —
the sadder wiser woman i have suddenly become would likely state
that it was me. being somewhat overly-sensitive. always. allowing others
to infiltrate my tender-youthful mind. but then you see —
i became a missed opportunity. my beautiful pearls of wisdom
always strung. completely. upside-down.
