Life Is a Canoe Ride For Those Born In America
Life is a Canoe Ride
For Those Born in America
Written: by Tom Wright
5/29/2019
We’re situated equal, in life’s canoe, to start the game,
Some will choose to drift, reluctant to work for acclaim.
Many are judicious, shirkers use excuses or place blame,
They survey others, claiming entitlement to the same.
Some accept living in squalor, feeling no guilt or shame,
Using sharp tongues and innuendos to possess and inflame.
Unwilling to man a paddle as a free ride is their aim,
Not realizing, a sinking canoe, drowns each occupant the same.
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need
But not for man’s greed”
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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