Friday, June 22, 2018

On Good Fortune Coming Just When You Need It (June 22, 2018)


Lucky man!  Oh, you so, so lucky man!
The cliff approached, the end is near, you jump,
Yet – deus ex machina!  you began
To fall only to find you're saved; the "wump"
You expect hitting the ground now sounds soft,
Like an old man's gray head on pillows' down. 
What keeps holding someone like you aloft?
Why should you have such grace?  Around this town
A thousand men deserve more grace than you;
Around the world a million souls await
The intervention of the saints.   It's true
That you are not so bad, so don't berate
Yourself unfairly, yet be ever humble
That you are raised whenever you stumble.


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