Focus, Fidelia Poem by John Sensele

Focus on the bigger picture despite strain and pain
For your reward lies a few inches away
If only you could maintain
A discipline demeanour as to God you pray for a way.

Focus on the bigger picture despite ridicule
Heaped on your efforts to forge ahead
In the face of major setbacks or miniscule
Concussion and contusion to your aching head.

Focus on the bigger picture despite pressure and fissure
Lurking in the background
To snatch any measure of pleasure and leisure
As the grapevine sets in motion a rampage round.

Focus on the bigger picture despite misfit and defeat
Threatening to lift the lid
To your detriment on a tumult tweet
That damages the credibility of your crucible creed.

Focus on the bigger picture despite favour and endeavor
Flying away from the radar
By dint of clever
Manipulations almost sets your domestic dome asunder.

Focus on the bigger picture despite valour and colour
Diminishing from your kaleidoscope
When brutal hands discolour
Your world and reduce the scope of hope with deadly dope.