Pick it up.
Start again.
Life is a living lesson.
See those clouds on the horizon?
They’ll bring rain by evening.
So, we’ll toil in the sun
to ready the garden.
It’s gonna be hard;
real hard,
but we accept this station.
Let me ask you;
Do you think
this life will go as even,
planned as we hope,
season by season?
Do you think
this worth
was easy to coax
from the hard earth?
Do you think
that life and time
did not seek
to thwart my hand
at every turn?
Even with you;
I have tried
and I have failed.
And you have watched me
in my defeat
and failure.
I found a way.
Every day.
Every time.
I woke in the morning,
early,
and set to work again.
I have tried
to win good life
from an unforgiving world,
for you,
in case you wondered why.
Every trial
that ended in failure
was just a test,
a rehearsal for victory.
I can get this wrong
and fail
one thousand times,
but with you,
I only need to succeed
once.
HG – 2019
