What Is Better

Is it 

Better to lead

Than be lead

Teather bound to not your
own kite

String one's own bow

Follow your own path

Rather than up and down 
a secretive garden

Do thing's your way 

Be the wolf not a lamb

Be unique stand alone

Live and die without regret 
and fear

Be not behind but 1 step ahead
of the 8' Ball

Face and make the tough
calls

So on and so forth

And if from time to time as
in life thing's turn sour

Be willing to put your head
upon the chopping block

Take and admit responsibility

For leading other's astray and
in the wrong direction

Knowing you have no 1 else
but oneself to blame

Then and only then my Son 

You can surely call yourself
a leader

And so must take the lead
And not be lead

Otherwise how is a change
for the better ever to be achieved

And so too parity for the masses

If all we do is follow

Because our leader's are not
willing to put their head's 
above the parapet

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Date: 4/29/2021 3:32:00 PM
Leaders are mostly known scoundrels who take advantage of dreamy fools who, without consistent training and wisdom, embark in a punctured canoe, in a rocket's tail ,,,Better Stay alert, study And wait... salute alkas
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 4/29/2021 4:12:00 PM
Exactly Alkas Salute
Date: 4/29/2021 1:35:00 PM
wise words indeed Christopher especially 'knowing that you only have no one else to blame but yourself' makes me think of my sibling who blames anyone but herself for what goes on in her life - or she did not had contact in 5 yrs now but that's another story, hugs jan xx
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 4/29/2021 2:54:00 PM
Silence is golden And sometimes no contact is better than none
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