And So My Soul

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

Daily writing prompt

This is a poem from long ago.

AND SO MY SOUL

And so my soul
Spills over
Into print again
As the sun spills
Over flowers
And the neighborhood
Sleeps

Endurance is eloquent
And marigolds are
Admirable because
They bloom
So long

Oh, my heart
Is tender
Yet God keeps it
Strong
And so my soul
Spills over
Into print again

Ellen Grace Olinger

Written in 1981 and published by Time Of Singing in 1991.

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