Optimism

It's hard sometimes to be optimistic despite the many negatives
I can't seem to put myself to believe that something good will come
I pray, I hope, I do what needs to be done
But things seem not to be falling into place...

It is said that what you think and what you feel
And what manifests.. is always a perfect match...
The challenge is how to wither out the bad thoughts
How to download the bad feelings
How to become focused on what's good...

Another day comes
Things are exactly what they were yesterday..
Life goes on
Until a time will come again to remind ourselves to remain optimistic.

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree:
finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another.
A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs--all this resinous, unretractable earth.