Fortune is a Fickle Friend

Fortune is a fickle friend,
and what defines our life in one moment,
can unseat us in another,
for luck does not exist, as we’d want to believe,
only the consequence of choices
the decisions we make on a second by second basis
that create the fortunes of our path,
be it for happiness, health, wealth or misery
and all that attests our thoughts and actions,
whether expressed or not.

There can be no assurances
of security, of a status quo,
for that depends on our choices,
and how we maintain our resolve in wants,
expressed in how we go about our lives,
with kindness and compassion
or selfishness and manipulation,
each carrying a balanced
result and impact on each aspect of life,
our rendered reality.

One misstep can transform life,
can lose what we have gained in any aspect,
and so fickle our fortunes as to question
why me, as if persecution the truth,
yet circumstances are in continual flux,
as is our thoughts and plans,
and life just responds in kind,
no judgement, just the demands of equilibrium.

So rely on nothing,
except ourselves and our beliefs and morality in play,
for that will procure our wants
and our expectations worked for,
rather than being at the mercy of our inconsistencies,
our negative aspects that can play havoc with circumstance,
and lead us to losses and harsh lessons,
when we become lost in the physical
and ignore the spiritual aspects of life.

Fortune is what we make of it, our perspective.

Tony DeLorger © 2016

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Tony DeLorger

Full time author, freelance writer, poet and blogger since 1999. Twenty one published works, past winner of 'Poet of the Year' on HubPages, 'Poem of the Year' on The Creative Exiles, writer for Allpoetry.com, Google+, tonydwtf.blogspot.com.au
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