
Spring eternal comes
New life grows through all the land
Time to think ahead
Where anything can happen and probably will

Spring eternal comes
New life grows through all the land
Time to think ahead

When we are struggling to cope with the things that life throws at us, it’s easy to think that the whole universe is conspiring against us. We know it’s not true. It simply feels that way.
I once spoke with a woman who raised this very issue, but from a more balanced point of view. She rightly pointed out that she feels that despite trying to do good to others, bad things keep happening in her life. But then she explained that when she sees what some people have to endure she realises that she’s not so badly off, after all.
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Her tortured breathing
Slowed to a gentle whisper
Till she breathed her last
As life finally left her
He knew: Love would linger on

Man-made steel and net
Spider’s Web hangs in between
Which one is strongest?

He lies awake
Missing her snoring
That once kept him awake