Look Not Back in Anger

Look not back in anger with hostile bitter mind

Upon the pain, the tears and injustice so unkind.

The knocks, the wounds, the agony, the slamming of a door

That left us cold and desolate, alone, unloved once more.

Remember the joy of a golden morn after a night of rain;

The sweetness of the Earth and Sky after the summer rain.

The clear pure song of the skylark as he soars in the heavens above,

The innocent trust of a baby in his mother's tender love.

Rejoice at the pain and sorrow, give thanks for the tears and the strife.

These are but tests on the Pathway that leads to the Higher Life.

For what help are we to another's grief if sorrow we have not known?

What comfort in desolation if we've never been left alone?

To the agony of the sufferer, if our life is free from pain?

If we've never learned from the Truth within to know life is never in vain?

So look not back in anger, but forward with Joy and Love,

Knowing that life's little trials are but God's gifts from above.

For as we learn to accept them, with calm and tranquil mind,

We know that the love is our Father is infinitely kind.

~ M. Yolanda Valentine ~

(S.S. June1987)