they say hardships and tears and sweat built character <br />(it's mentioned at every closed opportunity and every stunning defeat) <br /> <br />you can build character by falling and climbing, <br />running and returning, <br />failing and never succeeding. <br />today, <br />I am officially over building character <br />I've got enough character to start my own third world country <br />I've built sky-scrapers of character <br />I've got my own bank and I invest character in the stock market <br />I'm going to start loaning it out to the character-deprived! <br />I'll learn how to knit and make character scarves to donate to <br />homeless shelters. <br /> <br />don't you understand? <br />I've got character seeping out my ears, <br />hiding under my bed. <br />and if I keep on building all this darn character, <br />soon I'll have no place to put it: <br />I'll have to start sending it to Mars via space rocket, or <br />making it into earth-friendly shoes <br /> <br />good grief world, do you get what I'm trying to tell you? <br />I'm THROUGH building character! <br />I'm THROUGH struggling and wishing and <br />wiping my red cheeks. <br />my character-run toyota hybrid will have to wait- <br />and character-land will have to disintegrate <br />because <br /> <br />I'm THROUGH building character.<br /><br />gina prettybrowneyes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-declaration-of-character/
