I welcome the cloudy skies
for without rain, there is no growth.
I embrace life's challenges
and find ways to move forth.

I try to accept and understand,
discover the best ways to play my hand,
enjoy whatever is at my command,
recognize what is beyond my control,
what eludes, meant not to unfold.

Sometimes I must reassess my goals.

When all is copacetic, are we truly happy?
Do the undulations of life provide a forum to make us scrappy?
Am I being too sappy?

The dichotomies of ths world provide a gauge to measure
what gives the most pleasure.
But paradise is not for this life.
We pray we find it with its release.
Only then will we encapsulate true peace.

Until then we must march on,
singing our favourite songs,
savouring our blessings instead of focussing on all that's gone wrong.
Please keep moving along.