waiting to live

Life will be difficult,

It will feel impossible,

But I promise you

It is not so bad in the end.

Suffering is the blade

Which carves our hearts

To be refilled with unfathomable love,

All you must do is hold on!

That sunrise you never expected

Is over the horizon.

It may be today, or next year, 

Or in decades, but it is inevitable.

Life will not yield a happy story,

Yet with nothing but perspective 

We can give it a happy ending,

And that’s all that matters.

For years I felt my fight was vain,

Yet foolishly I held my faith, oh how I clung!

Subconscious, even when I tried to stop,

Even when it tore my hands.

That most important faith:

A faith that love would guide me,

That in love there is no misdirection,

That mistakes and suffering are the path.

And so, let my final wisdom be this:

It was all worth it in the end.

If you steer in the direction of love,

No matter how intense the storm

I know someday you’ll see it too.