My Poetry: Resilience

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good." 

~ Elizabeth Edwards

I've been feeling like I've been down in the gutters after a family death at the start of June and then a home robbery and vandalism in the middle of June, which is why I haven't posted anything for a few weeks. Apologies!

But in the past week or so, I've felt re-born and have been "claiming back" my home ... and myself ... again.

While I've lost some drafts of my recent reviews, which was on the laptop that was amongst the items stolen from my home, I will write them again - hopefully soon!

I did write another poem, though. This poem arises out of recent events and is inspired by the above quote by Elizabeth Edwards and Jaci Velasquez's song, Flower in the Rain (video posted below).

~*~Resilience~*~

I’ve felt like I was kicked down,

But I picked myself up,

I could continue to frown,

But instead, I look at my half full cup;

I will be like a flower in the rain,

And when the storms have passed,

I will grow stronger again;

Oh, my bittersweet Resilience,

I have come to know your brilliance,

For even my Faith like a mustard seed,

Can give me strength when I bleed,

And to be enduring like a weed;

Like a weed growing in the gutter,

Which can still make one utter:

There is beauty in the gutter,

Where Resilience springs,

A beauty that reminds us to be thankful,

For the depth of Hope it brings!

~ By Jayne Michellane a.k.a Lady Jayne, 4th July 2011

Flower in the Rain by Jaci Velasquez: