It’s Just a Problem

 

 

It’s just a problem,

Solve it!

It’s only a problem,

Don’t quit.

 

Sounds amazing,

Doesn’t it?

But does this advice

Every problem fit?

 

See that pupil

Struggling with Math?

Here is encouragement

For him at last.

 

Just a problem?

Oh, I can solve it,

That’s what you do with a problem

I don’t have to skip.

 

 

A changed attitude,

That is just it!

It’s just a problem!

Don’t quit.

 

Not so easy, I dare say,

Not so easy at all!

It might be just a problem

But I am stalled.

 

I cannot solve it,

No solution insight,

It is really beyond me

I’m not this bright.

 

“It’s just a problem”

Sounds really great

But I wish I knew how,

So much is at stake.

 

 

It’s just a problem,

Solve it!

All a problem requires

Is to solve it.

 

It’s no more

And no less,

Just find the solution

That fits it best.

 

It’s just a problem

So, find its solution

And let’s bring this poem

To a conclusion.

 

 

A word to the PM

Re our national ship,

It’s just a problem,

Solve it!

 

Every problem

Comes with a solution,

It’s somewhere out there

In the confusion.

 

The confusion

That leaders create

Either to conceal the truth

Or make it dissipate.

 

It’s just a problem,

Solve it!

Easier said than done

So, I quit.

 

Stewart Russell © February 28, 2025