Geoffrey Brewer Poet Sonnet

Sonnet For Realism In Action

SONNET FOR REALISM IN ACTION
OR: If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly

We’re told with smug assurance patronising
That if a job’s worth doing, then do well with it
But if we doubt our faultless realising
We’re inclined to say in hopelessness ‘to hell with it!’
With projects of high promise I could regale ya
Begun with soaring hope at their inception
But ended, quit because of fear of failure
To live to standards asking for perfection
An alternate motto, different course to plough
‘Keep hope and faith then maybe bye and bye
If we press on, we’ll muddle through somehow
We might as well go on and give it a try’
Here’s a slogan more realist than proverbial
‘If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth it’ - no clause adverbial

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Sand Blown June 10, 2020 at 12:30 AM good quote, 'if....it's worth it'....been working on a mathematics project for a year and am at the point of having to keep reassuring myself....ya! it's worth it