THORNY ROSE LIFE
Defeated with frustration and despair
There you are plunging into failure’s pit
Lamenting, “Oh, for me, no one does care…”
From life of thorns, let me exit a bit!
Friends do rebuke your distressful venture
With counsel to free your heart from gloom's pain
Saying, “Hate grips you with misadventure,”
See the roses blooming in glowing gain.”
Learn rose-thorns' lessons well, though sometimes hard;
That’s the commencement of triumphant race
Keep on trusting* God around His safeguard
Midst thorny trials to be won by grace.
Life is not a bed of roses indeed
Yet faith makes thorn-filled cross bearing succeed.
*Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
August 4, 2018
Edited on January 4, 2024
1st place, "Sonnet - Old or New" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May; judged on 1/6/2025
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