Poem : Giving My Best
Tony Dovale
Professional Speaker, Keynote Presenter, Coach & Catalyst
Giving My Best
We hold our breath and turn away,
Did I really give my best today?
Did I really go beyond the call
Or did I make myself take the fall.
Did I really, really, give it my best good hard try
wholly and strongly, like I was about to die?
Or did I avoid looking into God’s eyes
Because all I gave was just a feeble try.
So dreary, so droll and so… ho hum
We defend what we have… just become
It’s good enough, I pray for today
Why give more who cares any way?
I’ve been thinking all along, I thought I knew
The meaning of “giving my best”, until I met you.
Go study, go work hard, get good grades
Hopefully you’ll earn it all back in spades.
It’s only in times of pain or great need
I discover how little… I’ve tried.. yes indeed.
My friends’ husband came from jail today
It gave me chance to sit quiet and replay
Was I thoughtful, and did I try my best
To support my friend as she went through her test?
Like a wave of sadness it overcame over me
as
I discovered… I didn’t…give my best you see.
I had many excuses and real big ones too
Truth be known, I didn’t give my best to you.
Softly and gently ‘nother friend said to me
You tried your best, even they can see
But if I were to be honest and true to you
I’d own, I was so tied up in striving to
My whole life I actually thought I knew
What giving my best would always do
But I have to own my space and truth to be
New ways to live and give my best you see
I have discovered on this life’s test
I really haven’t been giving my best.
So stop and look in your mirror if you may
And ask that person this question today
Do I really give my best each way
Or do I try in a weak and feeble way.
It’s easy and simple in each bright new day
look in side and remove stuff that makes you hide away
By looking inside, by testing new dreams
Your best will become more than what is seems
Age is no issue it stops no one who is free
To do their best and achieve their destiny
So as you sit and ponder that dilligent thought
Do your best otherwise you will be fraught
With wondering and pondering and guilt and dis-ease
Did you do your best or did you try just to please?
I made myself a new promise, I made it I pray.
I’m giving my best starting right from today.
I’ll dig deep inside; I’ll go all the way
I’m giving my best starting right from today.
I’ll find where I’m lacking, I’m open to see
What I can do to give my best to be.
If God sat down beside you on this very day
What would you truely be able to to say?
Well, I sorta, tried kinda, some of the way
Or I gave my very besy on this wonderful day.
Tony Dovale December 2005
Namaste' - Tony Dovale
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