Begin Again

When life has

stacked its circumstances

against you,

so insurmountably high

that you can't see anything beyond,

begin again.

When disappointment
has rubbed rough salt
into your former wounds,
so that you wince
from the pressure of invisible pain,
begin again.

When discouragement
has removed the mat
from under you
and the floor,
and left you sprawled on hard dry dirt,
begin again.

When the vision
that burned beacon bright,
has dimmed
to dull intermittent glow,
begin again.

When your spirit
aches for even
a drop of living water,
to ease the torment of desert thirst within,
begin again.

Nothing is beyond you.

No dream, vision or plan

now dropped or discarded

is truly dead,

if only you can find the courage to

begin again.