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Life, like a practiced comedian on the stage Keeps smiling and frowning in turn. Under the embers of joy that spark from our hearts, Lies the pulverized heap of charcoaled dreams! Sometimes I find life, a tight rope walk When a false step can prove so very fatal And fear it might land me in some bottomless abyss Demanding me to proceed with utmost caution At such times, I raise my heart in prayer For divine assistance and godly intervention Sure, this abidance in God keeps me on When life turns a trek through labyrinthine paths While staying at the Himalayan heights of joy Sometimes I feel hurled down into the nadir of despair Soon after proudly flaunting my trophy I see myself smashed into utter defeat…. When trials and sorrows, thus dominate my life And joy, I find is only a passing phase, I turn to inspirational books and biographies of men Who have dared and won against all odds And thus fuel my mind with fresh hope Sometimes when I feel moody for no reason And am weighed down by an inarticulate ache I make a stroll into nature, to the silent shade of trees To hear the nightingales sing, to see the bees collecting pollen To feast on the beauty that surrounds, And inhale the salubrious air that comes wafting Then I am filled with a new vigor and renewed zest Brightening every corner of my darkened mind In all ups and downs, when life becomes full of care I withdraw into a lonely corner with my pen and paper And tap at the fountain springs of my imagination When a cascade of feelings plunge down from my heart, Spurting out in broken jets with or without rhyme Unveiling inmost secrets and thoughts of joy or gloom Then it quickly hands me down with a therapeutic effect And the storm inside ceases and a divine calm settles April.3. 2022 What Keeps Me Going Poetry Contest Sponsor- Cecelia Hopkins Drewer
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