If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
…Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!
Author Unknown
I have searched and can not find the author of this poem. If anyone knows who it is, please contact me. Thank you.
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Who is the author of “Inner Peace”, I love the poem.
Stevee, I tried to find the original author with little luck. I updated the poem so if someone happens upon this and knows the author they can contact me.
IN THIS CASE I AM THE FAMILY DOG
so, good
this is the poem i will carry in my pocket for poem in my pocket day
The poem has a funny climax
Which I did not expect
Why the author has put identity-locks
When the poem has a laughing effect?
it’s poem is so great you are a wonderful poet poem for writing this wonderful
Your poem make me laugh all the time i remenber it. You are a great poet and this is a wonderful poem.
I love this poem! it made me laugh and yet its so true! great job whoever wrote this! p.s. we want to know who u are, please don’t be shy!
awh, i like it.
How true is that. The Family dog! If only we could be more like our pets.
i mani mutsari wa poem leyi! ya tsakisa swinene
gosh can the writer of this poem just come out please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So that’s how dogs view us!! Lol! Great poem!
Wow, this is a really good poem. The last sentence is very surprising and unexpected, that’s why I love it.
nyc climax
i love this poem….this person is really good
lol
i like this poem! whoever wrote it should reveal their name…and to everyone out there, THERE ARE ONLY THREE FUNNY POEMS HERE!!!! THIS MAKES ME DEPRESSED!!!!! I AM TRYING TO WRITE SOME!!!! BUT ONE PERSON CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH!!!
thanks lol i guess i am the family dog lol
That is so funny! I was asking myself, seriously? Some people like what’s described on the poem exists until I saw the ending. I laughed.
awesome !!!!! its so true
no one is perfact thats a fact and this poem speaks just that
whenever someone is feeling bad about themselves just read this. maybe doctors should perscribe poems like these to depressed people instead of meds dont ya think
I like it I’m half of what this poem says but it still is great
…im about to agree but no..no..no… when i saw the last line….
i wish i was a family dog,maybe i would even get my bonus years 4 living.being g8ful @ wat lyf offers