Written Summer 1999

Troubled

 

When your problems seem so overwhelming,

You just don’t want to be told,

That you’ve got it easy, and your problems are just so insignificant,

Many others are much worse of than you are.

 

Yet when the person you care most about in the whole universe

Comes crying at your gate, one summer’s afternoon,

With such problems that you’d never even dream about,

In whose shoes you would for certain not survive,

All your troubles are immediately overshadowed,

No longer care what you put up with day to day.

 

You just feel so unreal now from day to day,

Can’t bear to see her crying anymore.

What can I do to help, other than watch and pray?

How ever will her misery end?

Until she is truly happy, what is life worth living for?

Yet I’m certain I’ll be able to help her soon.