Roller Coaster Poem by Joshua Hillard

Life is a chance of pride,
It is a roller coaster you'll forever ride,
Each day is potent to go up or down,
Each year you may begin to turn around.

When something is wrong you stop,
With maintenance it's fixed; you fall from the drop,
Full of happiness and excitement the whole way there,
As the ride becomes faster; faster without a care.

Than you reach a bounce that lifts you,
Making you see the things you did or didn't do,
In an instant the cart turns a corner sharp,
Where you begin to fix the things that once fell apart.

After the turn it heads straight at normal speed,
Giving you the prosperity that you'll always need,
But at times something goes wrong and a wheel breaks,
Causing you to fall; fall from your past mistakes.

You keep falling because you fight every day,
Only against yourself because you know no other way,
You keep falling until you lay dead on the ground,
To be able to listen to the sad faces as they gather around.

A Roller Coaster that you would forever travel has given up,
It's taken you the entire way from back to forth, but it's finally had enough,
The tires wore as the tracks filled with rust,
And your Roller Coaster, your life...blows in with the dust