The Good Thing About Trouble

The trouble with trouble is, often it comes

When we most least expect it

Keeping us mindful that in-between it

We should notice and respect it

The trouble with trouble in all its storms

No matter what the season

Is that it often does not inform

Us of its rhyme or reason

The trouble with ills and spills and bills

The trouble with The Uncertain

Is that it tests our inner will

And who we look to when we’re hurtin’

The trouble with trouble, I’ve come to guess

If it makes anything clearer

Is that it makes our happiness

Seem ever all the dearer

© Janet Martin