This Too Shall Pass...

Looking back, years gone by

We find a life complicated

Albeit in simple ways

We get joy as well as pain...

If there are flowers

There are thorns

If there is love

There is ache...

Yet some sank, while others drowned

In the ocean of tears they shed

A handful stayed afloat

Riding the wave of grief and pain...

The will to live; strong against the wind

Their hopes never crashing

Like you and me, they are flesh and bones

Born our equal, set apart

What makes them who they are?

The widow left alone

Destined a hard life

With kids and family to fend

Fighting the cruel world...

The lonely child left behind

By friends and family alike

Who grows up before his years

A burden upon tiny shoulders...

The mother of a soldier

Who gave up her son

Didn't let a pearl drop trickle

Down that aged face...

What do they have in common?

Those cursed by fate...

It is the belief, come what may

This too shall pass

This too shall pass...

It is not just them

Who wage a daily war

Look at yourself, your life

You'll find it complicated in simple ways...

Our grief may not be as great

The pain not that numbing

But it does shake us up

Throw us down...

So Strengthen that core, force a smile

Just remember the words I said

This too shall pass

This too shall pass...