Despair's a Sin

To rise in morning with a heart forlorn

With surety that failure waits for thee

Can try our patience, on this we'll agree.

A state that's known to all of woman born.

No man's immune to know this once or twice

The obstacles of life can't all be missed.

Yet even so, each day we must persist

For in the end the effort will suffice.

This gift of waking cannot be denied

As proof of Father's confidence in us.

To face with courage all that may betide

And all our failures past  be laid aside.

Despair's a sin, not something to discuss

This gift called life shows triumph is implied.

Frank Garnick