Hey everybody check out this poem,
By John Bytheway.
Rough Start; Great Finish
Some people like to wonder
Why is my life so tough?
Mortality is full of trials
and every day is rough
They say "hey Lord, I'm bein' good
Why punish me with trials?
I thought that if I chose the right
I'd have a life of smiles"
So here's some things within a poem
We mustn't disregard
Which hopefully will answer
why our lives can be so hard
Nephi crossed a desert
to find a place to build a ship
I think we'd all agree
this was not a pleasure trip
A wilderness dark and dreary
lay before the tree of life
You must fetch Ismael's family
before you find your wife
A wilderness will always come
before the Promised Land
And before they sowed in dark rich soil,
They saw a lot of sand
The kind of things that they went through
we go through now today.
Here's 25 examples of how things can be that way:
You've got to eat your Cracker Jack's
before you get your prize,
You have to sit through drive-through
before you get your fries
I drove a Chevy Vega
before my Honda Prelude
I had to take my finals man
before I got my grade dude
Before the 80's music came
we had to go through disco
before the tephlon frying pan
We used to cook with Crisco
You do a lot of dating son
before you find your honey
Bank officers will check your past
before they loan you money
Endure the small apartment kids
before you buy a home
My Franklin planner weighed a ton
before I bought a palm
You have to pass the food court
before you reach the mall
and I was really really short
before I got this tall
It takes a lot of courage boys
to ask the girls to dance
without the risk of asking though,
you'll never find romance
The ugly duckling came before
the really pretty swan
you've got to pull the dandelions
to have a gorgeous lawn
It could take 300 Wonka bars
to find a golden ticket
To eat that pile of chocolate
boy, you've really gotta dig it
We shovel snow in winter time
before we get to spring
Some guys will sacrifice their jeep
to buy a wedding ring
It's half a dozen previews
and then the presentation
and only after 8th grade trials
comes high school graduation
airport security must be passed
before you find your gate
It's odd that much of traveling
is stand in line and wait
You've got to go in rush hour
Then you park in your garage
You have to do stuff for your wife
to earn a back massage
Hours of piano lessons came
before the big recital
The Cougars played the U of U
before they won the title
Perhaps I should get to the point
before this poem gets longer
I guess that what I'm trying to say
is that trials make you stronger
So when you have a problem
there's no reason to complain
It might just be that all that's wrong
is for your eternal gain
Next time a trial comes along
don't gripe or write a letter
Just see what's really going on
your problems make you better
I hope my amateurish poem
my point will not diminish
sometimes a rough start comes before
a really awesome finish.
also check out the blog where I got this poem at
http://xxtigm er-kelsey.blogspot.com
