Brillig Lost, and Found
©2018 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by casey horner on Unsplash
How have we been
reduced to this?
A pound of pain,
an ounce of bliss.
Life’s bloom is off
the wilting rose.
Our goose is cooked,
and so it goes.
The golden notes
of yesteryear,
now given way
to notes of fear,
are well remembered
but recede
in this, our greatest
time of need.
How did we get here,
Cheshire cat?
Too much of this?
Too little that?
5 ups, 10 downs.
Is there a scheme?
Or is it all
a fever dream?
Wipe off that snarky,
feline grin.
The jig is up.
We won’t buy in.
When all is said,
and all is done,
our road leads out.
We’ll find the sun.
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Tags: adversity, healing, hope, overcoming, trials
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.