Life’s Not Fair… Only Losers Say That!

by Paul Tristram / June 26th, 2016

You will get no sympathy from me
but you can earn my admiration.
You don’t have to be broken,
you don’t have to let them beat you
it’s a choice… and your choice at that.
Have some self respect
if you want some from me.
It doesn’t matter the size of the opposition,
start punching first instead of retaliating.
The process of winning starts in the head.
I’m yet to find a wall I couldn’t smash through.
Defeat is an ugly word for ugly people.
Stay beautiful, be brilliant
and go for the throat in every thing you do.

Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer who deals in the Lowlife, Outsider, and Outlaw genres.  He wrote his first poem as a teenager following his release from the (Infamous) Borstal ‘HMP Portland’, and he has been creating Literary Terrorism ever since.  His novel ‘Crazy Like Emotion’ is available to purchase right here . Also his collection of shorter fiction Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves' is available to purchase at https://bookgoodies.com/a/B0DFMTSR4F Both books are published by Close To The Bone Publishing. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.

This article was posted on Sunday, June 26th, 2016 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.