Choose Your Battles Wisely



CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES WISELY

There’s a saying ‘ Lose the Battle , but Win the War’
This can cause you a faraar,
meaning if you are forceful and brute
you may win an argument
but not the peace or the truth.

This phrase is widely used
but many possibly don’t heed.
There’s a deep wisdom in the saying
that we should not fret over every little thing.
No gain from sweating the little stuff in life,
like raising a storm in a tea cup,
not clever in making a big issue of every slight.

Choose your battles wisely
know what is worth fighting for
and no wager if it’s doesn’t matter.
But rage your war if it’s for the better.

Does it matter if you eat at this or that other restaurant?
Let someone else choose what they want
Is it important that you argue over a trivial point?
is it not wiser to let someone else win the anoint?
For it hardly matters in the grand scheme of things
for momentary pleasures and desires
in favour of more poignant meanings.
Choose your battles so that value springs.

Letting go at the right moments
doesn’t mean  you are a doormat
because you do fight for your corner
and don’t let others work over.
This is the true inner philosophy
of the phrase
‘Choose your battles wisely’ ,
and for this I give no apology.

About this poem

Avoid conflicts for unimportant reasons but fight for the right causes. Don’t sweat the little stuff. Take life easy, give it a slack!

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Submitted by badal.pal on July 25, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A bbxxx xxccxxx Abdd eeffgxgg xxddaxAa
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,236
Words 232
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 7, 4, 8, 8

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