Place Your Bet

 Today's Caboose poem from Barbara Kingsolver's "How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)"

You summited the mountain

    or you didn't

You sought for the best

    and might have fallen short

You cared too much

    and was left hurting

You made a wrong turn

    and it took years to correct

You made too many mistakes

    and lived the consequences

You opened your heart anyway

    and found peace

You stopped thinking about failure

    and placed your bet on LOVE