A Bowl of Cherries
If life’s a bowl of cherries,
Or you think that saying fits,
You must realize there’s a factor
That the axiom omits.
Which is cherries, though delicious,
Have a stone lodged deep inside,
The existence of which isn’t something
That can be denied.
Therefore, optimists and pessimists
Can share that great big bowl,
As the cherries and the pits together
Work to make it whole.
It’s a fact that life’s not fair, though,
So if Proverbville permits,
I propose instead of cherries,
We say life is just the pits.
Copyright © Ilene Bauer | Year Posted 2016
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