Hard
Be hard on yourself
Be that rock that never stops rolling
That bell that never stops tolling
That hunchback in the tower
Go hard on yourself
You know the song of love is calling
If you’re forever falling,
How can you muster any power?
Baby, you been comforted and coddled
But the answer’s not between the cork and the bottle
Don’t ease back and take the foot off of the throttle
Time to get hard
Be hard on yourself
This is no time for surrender
Stick your head out of the trenches
And jump in the line of fire
Stay hard on yourself –
You’re a pilgrim and a soldier
The point of life’s to get older
Not die with your desires
Be hard on yourself
There’s a meaning to your suffering
A hole for all your shoveling
To leave a decent legacy
Get hard on yourself
I didn’t used to believe it
The wise man does not seek it
He’s already under the tree
Be hard on yourself
Some might call it rhetoric
The corporate people peddle it
But an empty slogan, it ain’t
Get hard on yourself –
Live to the point of explosion
Turn your paddlewheel to the ocean
and go headlong without complaint.
Copyright © Keith Dovoric | Year Posted 2022
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