Life is Complicated

Relationships are tricky,
The giving and the taking,
The care and the comfort,
The hopes and the hurt.

If eyes are the window to the soul,
They change and they weep,
They smile and they laugh,
They give and they take.

I'm a fixer;
I like to take broken pieces and make it whole,
Take problems and make them better,
Encourage others and help, even when I can't.

I went to group on Tuesday,
And then bad things happened.
Laurie got mad and refuses to come over.
Erin is stubborn and doesn't want the gifts.

It's a selfish culture,
It's all about what you feel right now,
With little to no thought to the future.
Or anyone else, for that matter.

Life is crazy, life is tough,
The world is a huge asshole.
But the world is not all there is in this life.
And people are valuable no matter what.

We Take The Tidbits

We take the tidbits in life,
The little things that give us hope,
And weave it into something to live for.

The kind word, the simple smile, the faintest hope
That something good is going to come.
That is what we people do.

Through pain comes beauty, if we let it.
And it only takes a little hope
To turn the darkest day into something beautiful.

We give anger, we give pain,
Just as much as we receive it ourselves.
But we also are capable of so much more.

There is always hope upon this earth.
So much shadow, so much death,
But always Hope, as long as our Maker is here.

We take the little things
And make something beautiful,
Just like the One who created us.