It Takes Trust

to accept how you are taken, and decided for,
and take your taker, who stands in for your maker,
at the face value of the acceptance they project.

How trust works is how it works, 
it remains a complex test of character,
but even when we endure mistakes
that consume our lives and times
there is always some recovery after.

A life with mistakes is impossible.
But the life where we find virtues
in our errors is what makes us masters
of the disasters we never knew we'd create.

    

Let's Pretend ?

When Kurt Vonnegut wrote
'We are what we pretend to be'
he was not writing about sexuality
but he might as well have been.

He continued by warning
'So we must be careful... ',
he surely knew from then on
that his words were doomed to be ignored,
when they became a quotation.

We are never careful enough,
with quotations or with real life.
Maybe Sam Beckett had it best
when he said 'Fail Again, fail better'.