The Road to You and Your Passion



The Road to You and Your Passion ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 24, 2023

Sometimes your perceived passion in life
Takes a long winding convoluted trail
Traversing a widespread topography
Ups and downs it will often entail

At times you think you know it all
Sometimes it’s a mystery unsolved
So forge ahead with permutations of life
Sometimes just nothing feels resolved

You might start as a teacher, a preacher or cook
Perhaps an artist you were meant to be
Finding your passion can’t be taught in a book
Trust me, you’ll eventually see

Perhaps you decide to follow the passion
That your family pre-set just for you
Well that never works if your mind is adverse
You must follow what for you feels true

Now failures in life I have had me a few
What I thought was my passion was not
To remain in such failure brings misery and strife
So get out while some energy you got!!

There is no shame to discover in life
That your dreams were not really your passion
Sometimes it is, what it is and it is
Not for you and your unique charming fashion

I can’t tell how exactly to find what it is
That passion in life to pursue
But one thing for sure I know perfectly well
To yourself you MUST stay true!

About this poem

Life presents a winding road sometimes to passion fulfilled.

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Written on July 24, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX BCDC XEBE FDFD AGXG GHBH BAIA IGXG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,205
Words 236
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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