My dearest friend, don't be sad,
your days of joy will come.
Be grateful for your adversities
here's one rule of thumb.
Think of hard times in your life
and place them in a jar.
let the blackness fill it up.
remember every scar.
A giant flask of darkened times.
You hold inside your grasp.
Memories of hurtful things
and sadness in your past.
This tainted murk you stir and stir.
of times of toil and strife,
stand laid across the canvas and
the backdrop of your life.
Now ask yourself the question,
how darkened is your taint?
Step back and take a look at it.
And let me tell you something great!
As sad as it may very well be.
You've had these times of gray
Consider that the darker it is,
The BETTER you're on your way.
For IT can be the contrast
against new colors that you sow
upon this darkened backdrop
that you've come to know.
Take new pleasures as they come
and judge their full appeal.
The more hardship you've endured in life
the better they will feel.
You can now appreciate
when happiness comes to you.
In the contrast of this beautiful taint
upon which you compare it to.
So start today and paint life's journey
with strokes in pure white rushes
and upon this beautiful taint you have.
you can use your white paintbrushes.