If you have a sack of troubles
That you cannot set aright,
Close beside you through the day,
And long into the night,
If you are sore with sorrow,
From which you cannot flee,
Groping through the shadows,
For a path you cannot see.
If you are disillusioned,
With a lot of faded dreams,
Clutching tarnished treasures
That are splitting at the seams,
Wading through the marshes
Of a bunch of wasted years,
Grasping straws you cannot reach,
and drowning in your tears.
You've got to learn to give before
You earn the right to take,
Who doesn't bend before the wind,
Is mighty apt to break.
Just as a rose needs sunlight,
To nourish tender shoots,
So each of us needs love to grow,
Beginning at the roots.
And if today is cloudy,
Tomorrow might be fine.
No one has ever failed who kept
A happy state of mind.
The longest journey taken,
Starts with a single mile,
And one-day-at-a-time can change
The worthless to worthwhile!
~ Grace E. Easley
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