Ride or Race

Ride or Race

Written by Tressa Strickland

Dedicated to Don Strickland

In a ride versus a race,

what’s the difference in spinning the pedals?

To enjoy the peaceful pace

Or to ride hard for the medal.

Both motives have their own reason

You see, there is a time and a season

For all things to be as good as done

Only determined by one’s cohesion.

 

But considering life is a great mystery

A puzzle to never be completely solved.

Completion will come in the Great Beyond.

Until then, some pieces can be sorted out.

 

Speed should not be the only way of assessment.

Busy, hustling, striving, and haste.

These all make for a lot of waste.

Instead, allow beauty and truth to offer assessment.

Knowledge, conversation, love, nature, and you.

These all make for a place of appreciated value.

 

Quality over quantity.

The bigness can be pondered

And littleness to be wondered.

Nothing is off limits.

Joy, sadness, mountains, and valleys.

What a glory it is to search it out!

 

Ride or race

May it offer a reward so great

Because life is a vapor

And must be lived with so much grace.