SERENITY

Reflecting: Serenity comes in bits and pieces. Just when you think you have climbed that mountain, something or someone will come along and you will slip backward. To have seen that glimmer of serenity is hard work and then working back up the ladder to get it once more.


SERENITY

I have peace of mind at long last,
The kind of serenity that will not pass.

I've learned to live with problems big and small
They don't seem to bother me much at all.

Nothing can be as bad as where I've been,
It's made me stronger in the end.

To put myself first at long last,
Is certainly different than in the past.

I'm growing and learning by leaps and bounds,
Knowledge seems to be all around.

I'm not the person I was led to believe,
I've discovered a person who is beautiful to be.

All the arguing is in the past,
I've found serenity at long last.

I know where I've been and where I'm going,
To know who I am is certainly showing.

I'm proud of myself and how I act,
It serves no purpose to always look back.

To say I've come a long, long way,
Is an understatement I would surely say.

It's onward and upward forevermore,
I choose to do battle no more.

Life is too short to waste it now,
So many things I will never disavow.

I have peace of mind at long last,
The kind of serenity that will not pass.


Gloria J Hildreth
"Reflections: A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009