Testing Time
This truly is a testing time
when all around seek cause to find
something wrong with everything
that come out from my mouth or mind.
So easy now to let them win
and join their game… retaliate,
much harder still to stand my ground
while others seem to plan my fate.
Convincing people they’re not right
in treating others with contempt
but try to aim them at the light
and help their nasty streak repent.
I may not win this fragile fight
to change the ways of those I meet
whose presence leaves an ugly trail,
for this is truly quite a feat.
If just one should mend their way
and find within a calmer soul
so they can help the ones they greet
and not make hate their only goal,
then I will claim one battle won
by turning cheek to evil deed
and helping those who’d put me down
by perpetrating evil’s seed.
But caution guides my every step
when walking close to evil’s gate
for truly I could scorch my soul
…………..if tempted to retaliate!
Ivor G Davies
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