My Mastermind.

If I wasn't lost,

I wouldn't have learnt how to find myself.

If I wasn't broken,

I wouldn't have understood the puzzling game of life.

If I wasn't a looser,

I wouldn't have tried more harder to be a winner.

Thanks to my experience,

For always being my mastermind.

Author's Note

I learn more from my experience.

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

This work shows a philosophical bent toward the victories and defeats we all encounter in life. There is an acknowledgment that we win some and we lose some, but we can learn from both, especially the latter. Such an attitude is an insulation against discouragement. Verse 3 should be reviewed for both spelling and grammar.

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you so much, John.

[barleygirl]

This is a well-constructed message using thought-provoking examples from real life. We have all felt broken or lost or stupid at times & for me, at those times, I was learning the most about living. In V3, "looser" should be "loser" . . . and also, "more harder" sounds awkward & does not say what you want it to say. This is how I would change it: "I wouldn't have tried so hard to be a winner." This is one of your best "cerebral" pieces ("thinking" about life, more than being a "feeling" message). Fondly, Margie

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you so much, Margie.
Thanks for accepting this.

[Robert Trakofler]

You are all good energy these days Kay nice to read you

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you so much, Robert.
The more I'm learning, The more I think I'm knowing and the more I feel like there are still many unknown to be known.
Still fathoming.

[DAH]

This is fabulous on so many levels.

So positive and light-filled.

This is a fave couplet:

"If I wasn't lost,
I wouldn't have learnt how to find myself" Yes!

Bravo, Kay, bravo!

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you so much, DAH.
I'm glad you like it.

[DAH]

My pleasure!

[Lydia Shutter]

Yes, experience teaches us so much in life. Easy to identify with this one. I liked it. Lydi*

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you, Lydi.
Experience really teaches practically the best.

[R.J Calzonetti (Siniste..]

You’re right, there is always an upside to every low. That’s how people bounce back when they fall, with more knowledge and understanding than before. Thanks for sharing your yin yang of a poem. I loved it!

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you, R.J
We always fall that we may learn how to rise.

[Chris Shaw]

There is much wisdom in this piece of poetry Kay. To appreciate life fully we have to experience the extremities at times. If you haven:t experienced true sadness, you wouldn't be able to recognise total joy. Works with many emotions.

Chris

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank you, Chris.
If we haven't experience,
then we would have had nothing to write except fantasies.

[Chris Shaw]

That is true Kay.

[Dave Brown]

sometimes it takes a ton of effort to redirect yourself
Sounds like you have been successful
Well done

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Every rise after a fall is a success,
Every correction we ever get is an achievement,
Greatness isn't always when you've have much material things,
but when are able to define the realities that we meet along our pathway of life.

[Onlyme]

Beautiful expressed, a lovely uplifting, motivational poem. About seeing the good in bad and hard experiences. And how they shape us and make us who we are today. Yes, it is easy to get down and sad and feel reject and never to move on again. But your open highlights the facts you can learn from these negative emotions and overcome and make you a better person on top. It's so easy to just give up in life. But with self-love motivation and determination you can overcome.

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Thank You so much Dawn for this powerful review.
You really captured my point of view and I'm glad for that.
We just have to keep learning from every mistake we make.

[Onlyme]

exactly Kay, I agree totally with you on that statement and poem in general. Life is like lesson we have to learn even on bad days.

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Yes, exactly.
Thank you so much, Dawn.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we have to trip to find out if we can get up after the fall.
life will bruise us,but will the bruises heal?
that is the hope.
needs a bit of smoothing out...but strong expression here.
j.

[Kay Salisu Titilola]

Even If the scar remains, It would keep reminding me that I was once hit down by life, and I could stand up again. And that is a gain.

That you for your wonderful thought, J.
"If I didn't share this,
I wouldn't have received this thoughtful review."