WHEN WILL I LEARN?

NikonPal · January 2015

I had shared the following with some people today - and thought it might have some meaning to a few members here participating in the 2015 Challenge:-

I often think of a poem my mother had hanging in our home. It was called: "When Will I Learn?" She had a framed "handwritten copy" compliments of my older teenage sister hanging on the wall.

I never could confirm if it was written by James Metcalf, but my mother and father both loved it. He was popular in the 40's & 50's.

It fits so many situations in life – and has been inspirational to me several times...even when it came to losing weight.

Just thought I’d share:

When Will I Learn?
How many years are left to me, to build
my life anew?…How many opportunities
for better things to do?…
Each day I promise and I say….tomorrow I will start…
And every morning I arise with courage in my heart…
But as the hour strikes again…I linger and delay…
And then before I know it…have lost another day…
When will I learn that time is brief…And as the candles burn…
The minutes vanish from the earth…and they will not return?…
When will I ever overcome…the weaker self in me…
And strive to fashion of my soul…The kind it ought to be?

Bob