A New Page

After a while you learn the stark reality that
A partnership doesn’t always mean sanctuary
Begin to accept and understand through your suffering
With your head up high and your eyes ahead
With the grace of a woman, not the angst of a child
Accept that you really can and will endure
Plant your own field and adorn your own soul
Don’t wait in vein for a perennial bloom
Hope and forbearance is a road to journey today
Because yesterdays heartbroken ground is too rocky to stride
And future’s path is filled with apprehensive doubt
Truth is that no one is completely on your side
And blind trust leaves bitter disappointment
Austere reality, nothing is forever, so savour special moments
There is nothing we can’t endure, or heal our broken spirit
Happiness is a state of mind, which is mostly of our own volition
One day is another day nearer to our demise, wasted, can never be relived
Never compromise, comprehend you really do have worth
Life’s cruel blows teaches us a subtle difference
Between your hand being held and the grip of possession
And learning life has cruel abandonment and losses unfathomable
Questions that have no answers or reason that could possibly make logic
And equally, that beauty and happiness knows no bounds, momentarily
Kisses aren’t a price to pay for complacency and acceptance
Lethargy is not a state of mind even to contemplate
Understanding that life has its ups as well as downs
Move on, leave the world behind that lives fancifully only in dreams
Bittersweet memories will live deep inside and will always perpetuate
Turn another page in your book of life and make a new happier chapter
And once again breathe in the wonderfulness of a serene, tranquil heart



Patti Richards 2011