Bust And Boom

I have lived with boom and bust
as if they were 'a must', for decades
until nothing about them surprised me
beyond that I could never see further
than the latest explosion and collapse
whether the leaders were my elders
and betters were praised for just that
-older where older meant better
at inspiring unimaginative deference
towards the failing leadership of the past.

When I reach the age where I am deferred to
I hope I know to not act it, but help others
see through wisdom requires the resilience
to see past appearances-including my own. 

Failing Better All Year Round

Beyond the will to write, I find sustainable
new year's resolutions impossible to follow.

By the middle of Feb, when I write this,
I know that everyone who made a resolution
six weeks ago will have found it easy at first,
and then some sudden drop in support
will make maintaining the change a struggle.

When the struggle get too hard, the focus shifts 
to some lighter distraction, the resolve started 
in times of ease will then be quietly abandoned,
with no recognition that the aim of the change
was complex enough to need better backing
than it was given when it was started.

With only the sense of rest on the day
the resolution was made for support
all will to keep up change collapses. 

The best all year round resolution was said
by Samuel Beckett 'Try again, fail again, fail better.'.
If you follow that, and back it up with solid support
you fail well indeed. You'll be the best failure ever.  

After the Fail

This advice is certainly true for using computers
where the sales pitch for wanting to use them
makes them seem simple, but they are not.
As for 'wiser and stronger', 'more respected'
I don't know about that, I admit that I
have often felt afraid to try,
and is no harm in that.