Poem about working hard for what you want and yet it being still out of reach

All My Timing

All my timing

Has been slightly off

All my planning

Has been a big laugh

I close my eyes and I see things

The way I wish had been

The times spent working away

And I hold my breath and continue every day

Only to be faced with distress

All my timing

Has been slightly off

All my planning

has been a big laugh

Working hard- I should have played

All my effort

spill milk on the floor

All my hard work

thrown out the door

Don’t listen to the bull that’s on display

All my timing

Has been slightly off

All my planning

has been a big laugh

Put one foot out the door

Hold my head up a little higher

Go trudging through the lie

Once again

Can’t deal with defeat

Wasn’t born to not complete

Keep believing with work

I’ll get the prize

Even though

All my timing

Has been slightly off

All my planning

has been a big laugh

Maybe one day

It will show

All my effort

Not the woes

And working hard won’t be a mistake

But for now I don’t know

Guess I have to see it through

Because I don’t know how to do it

any other way

I hope my timing

Will finally be on

I hope my planning

Bringing the fruit I long.

Deena Thomson