Simile and metaphor

          Similes and metaphors are both used to compare one thing to something else. While similes and metaphors are very similar, there is one key difference between the two: similes always use the words "like" or "as" to make their comparison, while metaphors lack these two key words. 
A Dream Deferred by Harlem Renaissance 
A Book Is by Kathy Leeuwenburg

Life is too short to wake up with regrets.

The Baby's Dance

~Ann Taylor
Dance, little baby, dance up high,
Never mind baby, mother is by;
Crow and caper, caper and crow,
There little baby, there you go:
Up to the ceiling, down to the ground,
Backwards and forwards, round and round.
Then dance, little baby, and mother shall sing,
With the merry gay coral, ding, ding, a-ding, ding.

Don't compare

Don't compare yourself to others
Don't contrast your parents to those of your friends
Don't measure up your kids to the other kids Don't evaluate your boss to mine's
Essence of life is not the results of comparison
Just do your best the very way you think is best and accept.