LIFE IN RETROSPECT

As I reflect on journey’s pass and see my days of old,

Many regrets return to mind, their stories all retold.

Experience of pain incurred, I now can see as gain,

And all the failures in my life, wisdom from them obtain.

The places for remorse, is in the things I failed to do,

Like spread my wings more often and my fear, subdue.

I regret not reaching higher... beyond the fallen rain,

Lived life before it handed me this dreaded walking cane.

But as I look in retrospect, my life was meant to be,

For through the shattered glass, God shaped the one you see.

Each broken heart, the sorrow, and every tear that flowed;

The jagged stone seen carve, the one who walked that road.

My life viewed in retrospect, is the only way I’ve seen,

That I would change so little I can see on life’s big screen.

Would not erase the heartache or the tears that fell…

They placed my eyes on God and kept my soul from hell.

In life, the sun has shined on me and pouring rains seen fall,

And as I journey back in mind, each raindrop I recall.

Each cross refined this stone, and helped to make me grow;

Rain and sunshine in my life, both was blessed to know.