Overcoming

Linking up today with Mama Kat's for the Writer's Workshop.  

Hope to see you there.

OVERCOMING

by Patricia A Pitterle

Trials in my life

Come and go

Like the waves

In the ocean;

Rushing up onto the beach

Of life

With a dash and a swirl

And large splash

Of dismay.

Then running back

Out to sea.

Leaving me gasping

For air;

Amazed

At the blessings

Of relief and solitude.

The ebb and flow,

A constant force

In my daily life.

Often so much

A part of it

That I cannot imagine

What life would be like

Without the continual

Pounding and crashing

Of  waves upon

My shore.

Yet, the storms fade

Into times past

And for a short while

The waves gently

Brush the sands

Of life,

And the sun

warms my mind

With remembering.

Life is often full of

Stormy weather.

And yet,

It is also full

Of the overcoming of it.