When You Just Don'T Have It

When you just don't have it 
  Do you throw up your hands
    Do you quit on yourself

Or do you fight to regain it 
  And give it your all
    Not grasping at straws
               or clutching the air

Do you take a break, Why not? 
  and come back to it later
    Hum a tune, sing a song 

Tap your feet, let the shower run long
  Perhaps take a walk down by the river
    communing with nature...

Do you talk to a confidante, complain
  Rant and rave, spill your guts
    Or do you just admit ~ 

Even a finely-tuned machine can get stuck in a rut
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021


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Date: 4/15/2021 2:56:00 AM
Feel like this one was written for me ... I take a break walk away spend time with nature and come back to it later :) enjoyed this one :) hugs
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Date: 4/14/2021 9:20:00 PM
This is wonderfully written, Gershon. I'll be sure to take your words with me on my down days. Cheers!
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2021 9:23:00 PM
And here's hoping that you have very few 'down days' when you'll need them, Ansar. Peace, Gershon
Date: 4/14/2021 11:59:00 AM
Hello Gershon, yes even a finely tuned machine can get stuck in a rut. Enjoy yuour day my friend.
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 4/15/2021 10:29:00 AM
Hello Gershon, i did not know that. Thank you Gershon. the same to you my friend.
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2021 4:03:00 PM
Yes, even a Slinky can get stuck in a rut. (They do, you know). Happiness always, Darlene.
Date: 4/14/2021 5:05:00 AM
...I tire easily of losing arguments with inanimate objects and go in search of a hammer.....
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2021 4:00:00 PM
Ha, ha, ha! May I send this gentle reminder your way? -- When you get ahold of that hammer, John, not everything is a nail, you know! lol. Cheers, gw
Date: 4/13/2021 10:35:00 PM
I like this one. My muse has been stuck in a rut lately. LOL..Enjoyed reading this one. Your visits to my page are always encouraging. Sara
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2021 3:59:00 PM
Hope you have extracted yourself from the muck and the mire by now, Sara. Always look forward to see what's on your page! Happiness and Halos, Gershon
Date: 4/13/2021 10:33:00 PM
I've had many of those "when you just don't have it moments" G.W. This certainly is a "Winner"!!---Anselmo
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2021 3:51:00 PM
Ha, ha! Hope you have fewer and few of those moments as the days and weeks and months pass, Anselmo! Cheers, Gershon
Date: 4/13/2021 9:54:00 PM
I do all of that and more knowing it will return on its own time.
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/14/2021 3:50:00 PM
You have more confidence than I do. I guess I'm sort of 'When it's gone, it's gone,' kind of guy. lol. Here's to Trixie and you. :) gw
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