The Odds

Odds are that you will not be famous

     But you will be significant to someone

Odds are that you will not be wealthy

     But you will have all you need

Odds are that you will not travel extensively

     But you will come and go as you please

Odds are that you will grow ill

     But you will have known the riches of health

Odds are you grow old

     But youth held you long

Odds are you lose a love

     But you will have known tenderness

We play the likelihoods, not the odds