Life consumes ups and downs
Warm smiles give way to frowns
One moment pours with joy
Another will annoy
Mountaintop songs swell hearts
Dark valleys tear apart
Tonight’s thunderstorms boom
Tomorrow catches gloom
Miles bridge life’s paradox
Some shine, others break glass
Life’s cycle never halts
Dancing to steady waltz
Time takes different road
Living by rhythmic code
Expectations grin back
Days no longer look black
Morning rain shares rainbow
Outlook blossoms and glows
Love filling empty hearts
Today brings fresh restart
Hourglass never drains out
Happiness transforms drought
Life consumes ups and downs
Now sowing fertile grounds
Big Sky Buckeye 
Your poem certainly sums it up! Life is like a roller coster ride with it’s ups and downs. But your poem ends on a happy note. Love can bring us to a happy place where the hourglass never runs out, and God’s love is always there.
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Susan, your words add a blessed affirmation to our life’s journey. Much of my writing attempts to leave the reader with a sense of hope and peace.
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Those highs and lows can certainly happen within seconds of each other. How good to know that we God has a plan for both.
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Amen! With God with us, who can stand against us.
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beautiful poem capturing the ups and downs of life, but ultimately, what a gift life is…
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Jim, you captured to real essence of life . . . what a gift it is!
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Love this life poem!
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Thanks for reading Jim. I appreciate your kind words. My socially conscience voice has been wanting to speak a bit more often.
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