Good Grace

Good Grace

The other day I was talking

with a friend about the things

that I write.

She said, “I've noticed that most

of the poems you write

are uplifting and positive.”

I said, “Well, I write what

I know and what is in my heart.”

She said, “Certainly you must have

bad things happen to you too.”

I told her, “Yes, I've had very terrible

things happen but my experiences

in life have taught me that

if you are willing to look for it,

there are virtually always upsides

to the things that happen.

You know that scene from

Star Wars where the two Jedi

have to make it past a giant blast door

to get at the bad guys on the other side,

so they put their light sabers

into the door and after a few minutes

they just burn through the door?

The kind and good grace

of some of the things

that have happened to me

are like those light sabers---

They are of such a great

and powerful proportion,

that after awhile, their memory

manages to burn through

anything terrible

that happens to me.

Sometimes things happen to you

that you never really get over

some of them are bad, but there are

others as well even more lasting

that are good.

When I write, I keep the good

things in mind because

the memory of them outshines

just about anything else

that has ever happened to me.”

Dewey Dirks