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ADEREMI'S NOTEBOOK

13 September 2004

if

If…
(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)#

If you can keep your shares when all about you
Are selling theirs, and telling you “Sell too”.
If you can trust your savvy when all doubt you,
But with your postings make them nervous too.

If you can wait, and hold, with real devotion,
And being ridiculed just not respond.
If you feel safe to keep the shares you’ve chosen,
And shrug away all thoughts of being wrong.

If you can find the strength to watch your profit
Erode from all the stocks and shares you’ ve bought.
If you stay calm and keep your fingers off it -
Forget the “rules of trading” you’ve been taught.

If you can see no economic blunders,
If you can turn your back upon the bears,
If you are really sure your shares are wonders,
You simply have to keep, and ramp, those shares.

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With watching Markets fall and traders run,
You’ll put your earnings and life-savings in it,
And, which is more, you’ll soon be broke, my son.

#This adapted peom was posted in Shares Forum. The original “If” by Rudyard Kipling can be found here.

Tags: Crazy, Investments, Poetry

Comments (2)

Salik — October 8th, 2004 at 8am

A very good poem. I like it a lot.

dans — October 11th, 2004 at 1am

lmao… good one..it took me a minute to get it…i had to re-read the original, and then re-read this again..before i got the humor

haha!!

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