consider the corn

i consider the corn:
it bends and it bows

planted in rows
where the farmer has sown

each sturdy stalk sprouts on its own --
it does not look and bemoan
where the farmer has thrown-

it takes, good or not, what its given
and makes the best of it: its driven;

death is an option, but its choice is to grow
oh consider the corn! it grows where it's sown!

i gazed long at the field and had a lesson in thought:
i must grow where i'm planted, no matter the plot --

be it dry or wet, be it cloudly --
beaten by wind, eaten by rot --
-- forgotten or not --
think!

what if.... i grow roots in my plot ?

oh, the seed of my life was sown before time
by the toss of a hand
so much bigger than mine

i consider this hand that placed me with care --
and know it devined
the spot and the time, the rain and the shine
of my planting here --

emily dickinson

757
The Mountains - grow unnoticed -
Their Purple figures rise
Without attempt - Exhaustion
Assitance - or Applause

In Their Eternal Faces
The Sun - with just delight
Looks long - and last - and golden
For fellowshilp - at night -

768
When I hoped, I recollect
Just the place I stood -
At a Window facing West -
Roughest Air - was good -
Not a Sleet could bite me -
Not a frost could cool -
Hope it was that kept me warm -
Not Merino shawl -

When I feared - I recollect
Just teh Day it was -
Worlds were lying out to Sun -
Yet how Nature froze -

Icicles upon my soul
Prickled Blue and Cool -
Bird went praising everywhere -
Only Me - was still -

And the Day that I despaired -
This - if I forget
Nature will - that it be Night
After Sun has set -
Darkness intersect her face -
And put out her eye -
Nature hesitate - before
Memory and I -


781
To wait an Hour - is long -
If Love be just beyond -

To wait Eternity - is short -
If Love reward the end -

the pain is gone

nice new song from derulo - i like the way the lyric 'the pain is gone' sounds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESdn0MuJWQ&feature=fvw