Failure Fleet Poem by John Sensele

Waste not your time in haste, taste not any worry
Tackle factors under your control buckle but leave
Imponderables for God to dispose of alongside any dowry
That is due. Cultivate and elevate cultures that sieve
Chaff from bluff and manners that move life forward
Towards outcomes that reward effort and commitment
In every thought, every vote, every tote, every reward
Meant to incentivize further progress in every assignment
You undertake without mistake to take the prize
That's rightly yours. Undue worry hastens misery
Heaped upon uncertainty and inability whose size
Increases as worry begets worry as you capitulate to usury
Intended to snatch batches of potential success from under your feet
When you vacillate and oscillate between action and a failure fleet.