The Overwhelming Plain

Limitless are the possibilities
I cannot see when I look at me

I look for easy answers to take away my pain
Not understanding the storm brings much needed rain

Before the high winds the tall grass bends
I hear thunder not the answer Spirit sends

Unable to escape from daily reality
Living a life of confusing duality

Dreaming of a place of lifelong simplicity
My spirit only hears words of duplicity

A trail of tears lead away from the plain
That which I cling to only brings pain

I look back to where I had once been
Lightning beckons me again and again

Hailstones from above are carefully hurled
Attacking what holds me captive to this world

The storm passes thru and so do I
My answer found me from the sky

.....peace.....

Pain is an old friend who it took me a long time to understand. He never came to visit when I was prepared for him, always stayed longer than I wanted him to, and could not understand why others avoided him. His traveling companion is Love, a delightful one who has a way of making the heart smile and cry at the same time. But I have learned that love seldoms stays where pain cannot go and that there are lessons in this life only pain can teach.