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Life Poems
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Read inspiring life poems such as this one by Walter Malone entitled Opportunity.
| No matter how many times you may feel you have failed in the past, always remember that the door of opportunity is always open. Do not wallow in useless regrets of what "should've, could've, would've"; know that your future - starting from this moment - is always in your control. What happens from this day forward is what you choose to make it to be. Learn how to inspire yourself and create unlimited possibilities. You ARE capable of doing so. You just need the right guidance to follow, and dwelling on your mistakes of the past isn't it. |
Opportunity
by Walter Malone
They do me wrong who say I come no more
When once I knock and fail to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door,
And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.
Wail not for precious chances passed away,
Weep not for golden ages on the wane!
Each night I burn the records of the day,--
At sunrise every soul is born again!
Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped,
To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb;
My judgments seal the dead past with its dead,
But never bind a moment yet to come.
Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep;
I lend my arm to all who say "I can!"
No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep,
But yet might rise and be again a man!
Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast?
Dost reel from righteous Retribution's blow?
Then turn from blotted archives of the past,
And find the future's pages white as snow.
Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell;
Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven;
Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell,
Each night a star to guide thy feet to heaven.
~Walter Malone (1867 - 1915)
Walter's short life of 48 years did not diminish his creativeness and originality. At a young age, he knew that he wanted to be a writer and so at the age of thirteen his first articles were published by the Louisville Courier-Journal. By the age of sixteen, he had published his first book of poetry entitled Claribel and Other Poems. However, “Opportunity” is the poem for which he is best known for and is a reflection of life and our ability to achieve what we desire to achieve. Indeed, Walter reached his own achievements in two areas -- poetry and the law. In 1900, he published Song of North and South, a collection of poems that appeared in magazines during the previous three years. It is a self published volume by Alba R. Malone.
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