In The Morning Poem by Victoria Gauci

I wake in the morning and I am stiff,
But I get up anyway,
I put one foot in front of the other,
Determined to start my day,

Yesterday is gone and buried,
You can't undo what's been done,
But do not think for one darn minute,
That I would ever run,

No matter how my body feels,
At this stage in my age,
Through all of what I'm dealing with,
In life I still engage,

So many people tell me their woes,
And I tell them all the same,
Life is not always about winning,
But you have to stay in the game,

I've been knocked down, even trampled on,
But I always rise again,
Never will I ever allow,
Another person to take my grin,

The lessons I've learned since my youth,
Have made me wiser on this day,
From the bad I take the good,
Let the rest get washed away,

So never do I feel regret,
For anything that's ever happened,
So even with these creaky knees,
I still rise with both of them crackin'.