The Jeff Pulver Blog: YOU: A Poem by Dylan Pulver

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November 11, 2007

YOU: A Poem by Dylan Pulver

Last night in Chicago at a family gathering, my cousin Eric Pulver included the words of a poem during a speech he gave. After hearing the words, I had to ask Eric who wrote the poem because I wanted to share the words in my blog. Turns out the words were written by his son Dylan Pulver (yes there are two), when Dylan was 11 or 12.

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YOU

For what you do, is up to you
For what happens to you, is up to you
Not everything is under your control, but everything can be just like a bull
Fearless, and tearless
You must be
Like this bull in life
For you may find much strife
It is the extra thing that you do
That will make up most of you
That thing will seem unnecessary at the time
Undone the time will come where you will whine
Everything is possible though you may think that it is not
If you can picture it in your mind
Think about what you want carefully
Because that is who you’ll be
Don’t leave goals untouched
Because you will be such
Only you can save your date
I am just a dimwitted mate