Avoid Mistakes
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,
A stitch in time can save nine,
Sometimes we get our lives in a mess,
Even though we try to do what's right,
And we try to do what's best.
We make mistakes as we travel along lifes way,
Hopefully we've learned a lesson,
From the mistakes we've made today.
Education cost a lot, but ignorance cost much more,
And if we learned from our mistakes,
Then we're smarter than before.
Our lives are a sum of the choices we make,
Sometimes they give to us, sometimes they take.
When a man get's his head in a lions mouth,
He gets it out the best way he can,
All I can say is pity the man.
Sometimes our lives are like scrambled eggs,
And scrambled eggs aren't easily unscrambled.
It would be better if we could avoid all the mistakes that come.
But if we can't avoid them all, maybe we can avoid some.
By Charles E. Fitzgerald 10/08/01 Lakeland, Florida
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