Run Your Course

Don't compare yourself with others.
You have a course to run;
Don't focus on them
Or worry about what they've done.

What they have - you desire.
Who they are - you wish you'd be;
Like a horse with blinders on -
It's better not to see.

You're on a different course.
None race on the one you do;
No mountains alike,
Nor obstacles and valleys you go through. 

Don't look behind when you run -
Your past will hold you back;
Don't look to the left or right -
Distractions get you off track.

You can't go around your course.
Just one way to the other side;
Endure your race as I did Mine...
To the cross where I died.


By Jennifer O'Connor