To Have It All

Happiness and joy, are available to all,

Though neither, from the sky do fall.

Both can be made, found or lost,

Both can exact, their own cost.

Never has anything, worthwhile been obtained without loss,

You can’t have something for nothing, as life’s ocean you cross.

Only so many things, will fit into your boat,

Too many, you sink, enough and you float.

As you sail through life, you must heed this one call,

Not everything is possible, if you try to have it all.

For there are limits, that for us all, do exist,

Limits that allow us, or us do resist.

So fill your boat, my friend, not until it is full,

For if you do, as it sinks, you’ll not escape its pull.

C. J. Marshowler