No Stranger At My Door

Magpie #43

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ~Uncle Remus

Trouble rides a fast horse, I once heard a famous cowboy say. 

So I tiptoed like a snowflake, and flew the other way.

I traveled passed missed opportunities, and stumbled over the loss.

Holding regret, like a firearm, with pockets empty from the cost.

I grew weary running, so I turned to hiding behind my own locked doors,

never allowing trouble to dance upon my hardwood  floors.

Yet, all the avoiding, and escaping was at no avail,

for trouble would always find me through my own paper trail.

It is a cold hard lesson, like falling off a horse in the snow.

To learn that dodging all life's troubles also loses some blessing we could know.

Trouble rides a fast horse, I once heard a famous cowboy say.

So now I sit at my own doorstep, and simply welcome all that comes my way.

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