Good Advice

You can't hanker
After what you
Can't have.  And
The past is gone,
So there's no point
In feeling pain.
As for the future -
You can't know what
Will happen so
There's no point
Worrying about it.
As for the people
You've known -
There were of
A particular time,
And that time
Is not now.  It
Has been.
So the truth
Of life is
Acceptance of what is,
Endurance of what 
Is not, combined
With an insistent
Enhancing of self,
A coagulation of one,
The will ongoing 
To become.

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