Guess We All Needs a Bit o' Trouble

Gardening can be quite discouraging, especially when drought and blight join forces.

I was out just now, bemoaning the withered plants...

...when near to me lands a beautiful swallowtail butterfly!
Beauty midst broken...

Guess we all needs a bit o' trouble

To learn to be truly glad

‘Cause we would live in a bubble, love

If good days was all we had

Guess we all needs a bit o’ cryin’

To taste laughter’s sugar full-fold

An’ we all needs a bit o’ gray, darlin’

To appreciate the gold

Guess we all needs our share o’ losin’

To humbly receive a win

An' I guess if we gets too full o’ ‘gettin’

We all needs a punch on the chin

Guess we all would get lazy an’ fat

If we didn’t needs to work so hard

Guess we all needs trouble an’ that

To learn to trust in God

Guess we all wouldn’t learn to pray

If we had all that we wish

Guess we all needs to be more 'they'

An’ a little less selfish

We all needs to make a livin’, yep

But we should be givin’ a lot

‘Cause we all often needs each other’s he’p

'an each other is all we got

© Janet Martin