Week 3. Today I Activate My Hope

SOMETIMES

Sometimes things don't go, after all
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the corps don't fail;
sometimes a man aims high; and all
goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some
stranger poor.
Some men become what they were
born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss, sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it
happen for you.

           __Sheengh Pugh