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Give Thanks

When the sun shines bright and the skies are clear, When God is blessing,  Give thanks. When the table is full and also your stomach, When there is a roof over your head, When you and your family are healthy, When your job is stress free, Give thanks. When God performs a miracle, When your friends are close and your enemies far, When life is good, Give thanks. But when skies are dark and the storms come,  When the table is empty with no money to fill it, When you lose your job, When a loved one is taken from this world, When sickness and tragedy come, Give thanks. When God says no, When friends betray you and family abandons you, When terror follows you and sleep will not come, When Heaven is silent, Give thanks. "O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever." 1 Chronicles 16:34

Call of the Ocean

Powerful and terrifying Yet I can't resist its call I want to jump in The waves beg me to Sink  Swim Float Become one Something so scary And also comforting I envy the seas creatures Even the seagulls Their freedom Their intimacy Salt water in my veins Am I a child of the sea? Destined to never return home?
In college, I had to write a speech, using quotes from different poems, books, songs etc to make my own poem. Here's what I wrote. I titled it Hope . I don't remember where I got all the quotes and I didn't write down my sources. Oops! I did tweak it a bit because it didn't make sense. My life was like a moonless night... We see so many ugly things -  Deceits, wrongs and quarrelings When some great sorrow, like a mighty river comes, Flows through your life  with peace destroying power. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. When ceaseless toil has hushed your song of gladness And clearest things are swept from sight forever From the ashes a fire shall be woken, Hold fast to your dreams, This too shall pass away. A light from the shadows shall spring When you were gone, everything went black. Renewed shall be blade that was broken.  And sings the tune w