Delight and Disappointment's Crown

...the sun rises,

doles out its daily dose of delight...

and disappointment...

then tucks another page of time to the archives..

Delight and disappointment

Compose life’s harmony

Where love’s perfect contentment

Mingles with misery

Where trying could mean flying

Or face-plant in the dirt

Where holding means untying

Those heartstrings where they hurt

Where life is always teaching

More than seen at first glance

Where hope is always reaching

Beyond the circumstance

Perpetual estrangement

Of moments, echo spun

A rose and thorn arrangement

Shadows cast by the sun

A bittersweet concoction

Of dazzling dreams and shards

A motley interaction

With brutes, beggars and bards

Where prayer is never nothing

So prayer, dear comrade, pray

For there is always something

To learn along the way

Delight and disappointment

Seem to go hand in hand

One thrills us with enjoyment

One tests creature demand

But somehow as we weather

Dismay and happiness

The two of them together

Crown us with thankfulness

© Janet Martin