No Such thing as Luck
Rena Sykes 1993
No such thing as luck
With everything I have
I only see blessings
Nothing came overnight
I didn’t always see the green light.
You learn to crawl before you walk
Nobody knows your story before they talk
They only see what’s in the front row
They weren’t around to see the storm before the rainbow.
Hard work pays off
Nothing was given in my hands
By the grace of God I have what I have
I don’t expect them to understand.
I was brought out of the dark and into the light
I had to turn my wrongs into rights
You didn’t see what I been through
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I was lost, and I was stuck
It was the goodness of God
There is no such thing as luck
About this poem
This poem is about how a woman had to work hard to have what she has in her life now. People would tell her she is lucky, and act as if everything was given to her. People didn’t see what she had to go through to get where she is now. Trials and tribulations. By the grace of God, she is truly blessed.
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Submitted by Renathompson27 on May 29, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | A BXCC DDEE XXBX CXFF AXA |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 703 |
| Words | 155 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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