If by Rudyard Kipling

 

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

 

-Rudyard Kipling

easons will always change.
People come and go,
Their shadows comforting and strange.

The flowers will always bloom
Once the darkness subsides.
When every corner is filled with gloom,
Remember the sun just hides.

Brighter days will follow.
Earth will keep moving.
Look for the brighter color.
Help lift the darkness looming.

Breathe in the air around us.
Close your eyes for a minute's rest.
Live life for those who guided us,
For this moment is just a test.

You will get stronger.
Days will get longer.
Hope will flourish,
Memories to cherish.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/look-for-the-blossom

he blossom will always grow.
The seasons will always change.
People come and go,
Their shadows comforting and strange.

The flowers will always bloom
Once the darkness subsides.
When every corner is filled with gloom,
Remember the sun just hides.

Brighter days will follow.
Earth will keep moving.
Look for the brighter color.
Help lift the darkness looming.

Breathe in the air around us.
Close your eyes for a minute's rest.
Live life for those who guided us,
For this moment is just a test.

You will get stronger.
Days will get longer.
Hope will flourish,
Memories to cherish.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/look-for-the-blossom

Look For The Blossom

© J L

Published: April 9, 2020

The blossom will always grow.
The seasons will always change.
People come and go,
Their shadows comforting and strange.

The flowers will always bloom
Once the darkness subsides.
When every corner is filled with gloom,
Remember the sun just hides.

Brighter days will follow.
Earth will keep moving.
Look for the brighter color.
Help lift the darkness looming.

Breathe in the air around us.
Close your eyes for a minute's rest.
Live life for those who guided us,
For this moment is just a test.

You will get stronger.
Days will get longer.
Hope will flourish,
Memories to cherish.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/look-for-the-blossom

Look For The Blossom

© J L

Published: April 9, 2020

The blossom will always grow.
The seasons will always change.
People come and go,
Their shadows comforting and strange.

The flowers will always bloom
Once the darkness subsides.
When every corner is filled with gloom,
Remember the sun just hides.

Brighter days will follow.
Earth will keep moving.
Look for the brighter color.
Help lift the darkness looming.

Breathe in the air around us.
Close your eyes for a minute's rest.
Live life for those who guided us,
For this moment is just a test.

You will get stronger.
Days will get longer.
Hope will flourish,
Memories to cherish.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/look-for-the-blossom