Holding On Is Not Easy

HOLDING ON IS NOT EASY Holding on is not easy I do not really know how I do it Sometimes it seems the complaint and criticism Will defeat me completely I try to remain sane I try to believe the future will not be An incredible horror of incredibly complex and insoluble problems I try to believe It is not all bad and going only to worse I try to hold on I do not know how I do it I pray Certainly I pray to God for help I take small actions I know I am still capable of I write if I can a small poem I try to think of the ‘positive’ I remember I have been through such times in the past I go out to walk I take a drink or something small to eat I do an exercise I wait for the light of a new day I tell myself ‘Falling apart will only bring sorrow and problems to those I love’ I try to think of things I might do to make the situation better I exercise a bit I go to Shul I pray to God for help I read articles on the Internet I try to keep going I tell myself it will somehow get better As it has in the past I write a few words And I tell myself There are worse things in the world Than having had great ambitions and failed I remind myself I have been kind sometimes to others I go on somehow without knowing how I pray to God I have gotten out of these things before I am already getting out of this one