Nonsense Reliever Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

After many years of being made,
To develop patience and tolerance.
With this to accept,
My wishes to dream them...
Took more time than I had expected.
I can today say I have not one regret,
Of facing those challenges and obstacles.
That my kept faith would not allow,
Temporary temptations teased and dangled.
Testing to strangle my ambitions to kill.
Only to give me the will to move on.
Until a nonsense reliever,
Sent from God.
Lifted all that crap and carried B.S.,
Off of my back.
And suddenly that life I had,
Long to have missed yet with lessons learned.
I feel reborn and rejuvenated.
As if I had passed a task.
Leaving me happy and extremely glad,
To know my faith not to forsake it...
Returned such benefits,
I neither asked nor beg from God to get.

"You walk with such pride.
Dignity, identity and arrogance."

I know.
And who knew I would ever feel this way,
To flaunt it without excuses to deny.
I can try to crank it down a notch.
If it's too much self confidence exposed.