Life is like a pair of pants,
According to my mother dear,
Regardless of your happenstance,
Let all with ears to hear, come hear!
A fresh new pair of pants- Exciting!
A call for all to see- Inviting!
You pull them on, posing away,
You know you'll have a good day today!
You skip, you jump, you roll about,
These pants make you just want to shout!
Then- oops! You trip, you hear a "Rip"!
And- there! A tear, right on your knee,
The hugest hole you did ever see!
Too big, too wide, too large to hide,
What can be done? What can be tried?
Well, you won't get much done complaining,
So dry your tears, and face your fears,
Find your tools and let's start mending!
There they are, good as new- Nearly!
Whose to say they weren't like that- Really?
In fact, that patch, it's quite a match,
To your unique and special style!
That really wasn't so bad a trial!
My mother once told this to me,
Life is like a pair of pants,
Cause just like in reality,
No matter what your circumstance,
No one is perfect, we all sometimes fall,
So dust off those pants, and try to stand tall!
Just so you know the advice that life is like a pair of pants was given to me by a friend from middle school, but I couldn't think of a good rhyme for "Life is like a pair of pants, according to a friend of mine." And this poem is written with a children audience in mind, though of course adults can benefit from it too! Someday I want to publish it in the form of a children's book, kind of like My CTR Ring! Can't you just imagine the cute illustrations?
