Life seems to pose <br />A continual <br />Challenge <br />To accept the flaws <br />Of family and friends <br /> <br /> Things you cannot change <br /> Things you’ll never like <br /> Things that just don’t make much <br /> <br />Sense <br />And the question is how <br />Do you accommodate <br />Their presence <br /> —or absence— <br />In a life you must claim <br />As your own. <br /> <br /> <br />(Previously published in The Poet's Porch, March 2002)<br /><br />Laurence Overmire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rubik-s-cubik/
