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No Success Comes Without Struggle

No successes come without a struggle        
A pity to wallow in life’s sorrow              
To focus on our problems and trouble         
Dims potential for better tomorrows           

Seek the positive side, never borrow          
The following day’s ill-defined boggle         
Consider Egypt's stubborn king Pharoah     
No successes come without a struggle.    

Never seeing magic, the droll muggle         
Knowing not a miracle may follow             
One learns, interestingly, to juggle            
A pity to wallow in life’s sorrow.		 

I think unlikely we will ever know              
Success, only enjoying fate’s snuggle        
Avoid looking for the better morrows            
To focus on our problems and trouble.       

Struggles come in quicker-time, redouble         
Sometimes successes bring slow bravados  
Concentrating on a problem’s rubble         
Dims potential for better tomorrows         

So, learn to balance your joys and sorrows 
Focus on the forward steps, not trouble 
From tomorrow’s woes surely don’t borrow 
Above all, be especially humble, 
     ...No success comes without struggle.  


Written March 3, 2021
Poem inspired by Constance La France's
Contest "Life's Struggles"
Not entered in the contest!

Copyright © L Milton Hankins | Year Posted 2021

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Maurice Rigoler Date: 3/5/2021 1:50:00 AM More wise words here. My own viewpoint on this theme is this: Anything good is worth struggling for. / Maurice Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 3/5/2021 8:50:00 AM I couldn't agree more, Maurice. Much of life is a struggle, and when you stop to think about it, a newborn really goes through one helluva struggle just to get born!

Regina Mcintosh Date: 3/4/2021 2:46:00 AM Exceptional write. I love it and it's a sure winner. Brilliant write. God bless you with love and prayers, Gina Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 3/4/2021 9:07:00 AM Thanks, Regina. I didn't enter it. I wrote another poem for the contest. I really like this form...but it is rather difficult because it requires so many rhymes on two different words. Again, thanks.