A Saturday Poem

Yourself To Blame

by 

Mayme White Miller

If things go bad for you

And make you a bit ashamed

Often you will find out that

You have yourself to blame.

Swiftly we ran to mischief

And then the bad luck came

Why do we fault others?

We have ourselves to blame.

Whatever happens to us,

Here is what we say

"Had it not been for so-and-so

Things wouldn't have gone that way."

And if you are short of friends, 

I'll tell you what to do

Make an examination,

You'll find the faults in you...

You're the captain of your ship,

So agree with the same

If you travel downward

You have yourself to blame.

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This is what our girls have to recite when they start complaining, 

finding fault, and feeling that life's 'not fair'.

Sometimes I recite it to myself, too.