The opening question is one I have wrestled with for most of my life. As we head into a new year, I am thankful for all the good which has come my way and appreciative of the bad and the lessons I have learned. Happy New Year!
blessed or lucky?
Blessed implies
a higher being has granted
me the good things:
the people I love,
the special moments of happiness-
dots of joy scattered through time-
my health, that life has continued,
accidents not deadly,
my circumstances-
that I have always had enough.
No, it’s been luck.
Because for what reason
would I be entitled
to more than another,
just as deserving?
Or receive less
through some secret assembly line
sorting the spared
from the rejects
before they ever reach me?
I am in no way chosen
nor more deserving
yet here I am
with a life filled with luck.
Sure, there have been troubles,
even traumas,
of course, heartbreaks and heartaches,
but here, as my end approaches -
whatever one calls it -
you’ll get no complaints from me.
Poetry by Melinda K Zarate
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Lucky Enough
Am Iblessed or lucky?
Blessed implies
a higher being has granted
me the good things:
the people I love,
the special moments of happiness-
dots of joy scattered through time-
my health, that life has continued,
accidents not deadly,
my circumstances-
that I have always had enough.
No, it’s been luck.
Because for what reason
would I be entitled
to more than another,
just as deserving?
Or receive less
through some secret assembly line
sorting the spared
from the rejects
before they ever reach me?
I am in no way chosen
nor more deserving
yet here I am
with a life filled with luck.
Sure, there have been troubles,
even traumas,
of course, heartbreaks and heartaches,
but here, as my end approaches -
whatever one calls it -
you’ll get no complaints from me.
Poetry by Melinda K Zarate
Read 92 times
Editors' choiceWritten on 2025-12-29 at 15:19
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