Lee Stern: "Either Way"

I want you to be proud of me for the way that I’ve turned out.

I want you to say to yourself, “It could have gone either way

but he did pretty good.”

I want you to say that, when I fell into the pit hole,

I didn’t waste any time at all in pulling myself out of it.

And that when I got back up to the level ground,

instead of wasting my time sniveling about my experience,

I loaded some pears into my basket. 

And took off for the new world that was finally waiting in front of me

not like a supplicant.  But like the bringer of additional advice,

who, when the melting begins, throws leaves in a bowl full of grain.