Life Lesson Poem

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What are we meant for? What does God have planned for us? We all have a purpose; that's what keeps us going, to keep living, to find out what we are meant to do in the world. God chooses our...

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Lessons

Published by Family Friend Poems May 2008 with permission of the Author.

What are the lessons that we so deeply need to learn?
Are they lessons of making things better and bright?
Are they lessons of change making things right?

Are they lessons that teach us today?
Lessons of hope, are they honest and true?
These lessons are what make me and you!

These lessons we learn, are they happy or sad?
Do we love and forgive or do we stay mad?
The lessons in life are future events.

Lessons not handled make empty a plan, a lesson in life is like two birds in the hand.
One lesson to love one lesson to hate.
Which one to choose? Which one to make?

Lessons not easy so hard to discern, no better answer than the lesson well learned.
Learn the lessons the people say.
Lessons well learned are easy to replay.

When the lesson is learned
You don't make the same plan.
You know the one that was messed up, that bad deal of a hand.

Lessons in life are awesome at best because of the change that it makes in our hearts.
They are lessons in life that never depart.
Learn the lessons with all your heart.

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by Grace-Lynn Thode, sumter, sc
7 years ago

What are we meant for? What does God have planned for us? We all have a purpose; that's what keeps us going, to keep living, to find out what we are meant to do in the world. God chooses our path, and one wrong move, destroys it all. So what are we meant to do? Well, keep your path how God planned, and you will soon find out.

by Timothy O.
11 years ago

Life itself is a lesson we either learn from or be sentenced to repeat the same experience in other to learn the said lesson the hard way. There are lessons that never depart, to wit the lesson gotten from the aftermath of a war started by kins and kiths that ended up being nowhere to be found at the end of the bloody exercise. There are lessons learnt from others experiences and mistakes that are not worth experiencing or repeating. There is always a lesson to be learnt from Brenda's golden plus four years that is worth sharing as what life has taught her to those who want to learn. The poem I must say reminds us of the various causes and effects of lessons accumulated in life. Some are personal, to be kept private or to oneself while others are for public consumption. There are lessons everywhere for everyone to learn from and grow wiser if he or she so wills. The poem itself depicts an imagery of lessons.