PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

With each of life’s challenges

No matter how difficult and

Unwelcome they might be,

Only I can determine its effect on me.



I can allow it to either strengthen

My emotional muscles so that

Tissues may contract and expand

Enabling me to grow from them.



Or I can permit these obstacles to

Break my backbone as vertebrae

Fall off in chunks and that layer

Of protective spine disintegrates.



Only I can influence my emotions

And though anger may be justified,

rather than muscles flexing in a frown,

A smile will decorate my face.