Take Life by the Helm

I don’t blame any who live in the past,

For sometimes I just want moments to last.

Change is hard and some just deny it,

But I shall face and mortify it.

Change is hard, but need not be bad

For new things can excite and make one feel glad.

What is simple and easy wears a mask

And joy comes upon completion of a difficult task.

Nostalgia, at times, is good in which to wander,

But life happens once and shan’t be squandered.

We must take life by the helm*

For it is just once that we are in this realm.

History must continue to be made.

If not, we waste time which God to us gave.

Accountable is what we are,

So we need not spend life wishing on a star.

I have gifts and talents to use.

I have time I need not abuse.

Though I may wish to step into the past,

I shall take life by the helm, and not by its mast!

*Title of a speech given by Doug Nielson at an entrepreneurship seminar

~Poem written on 11/19/2011