Remain Resolute When Roses Writhe Poem by John Sensele

Remain resolute when a crowd connives
To heap on you sorrow
Sticking into your back knives
Yesterday, today and tomorrow as breathing space you beg or borrow.

Remain resolute when the sun shines
To heap on you warmth
As on your person sorrow danger defines
Alongside alleys of your worrisome wrath.

Remain resolute when frustration flowers
To heap on you worries
As your mind from danger cowers
To delete event entries from your diaries.

Remain resolute when the unexpected hangs high
To heap on you uncertainty
As frail feelings and fantasies fly
In the absence of a sense of certainty.

Remain resolute when earthquakes explode
To heap on you chaos
As thoughts in your mind implode
In Kitwe, Casablanca, Lagos and in Laos.

Remain resolute when whims wander
To heap on you disorder
As time and temper you squander
In the midst of a disparate disorder.

Remain resolute when changes chill
To heap on you a huge bill
As hope and holy habitude you kill
To enable phantoms your peace of mind to steal.

Remain resolute when traitors tango
To heap on you a heartbreak
As loose threads in your life tangle
At sunset, at noon at daybreak.

Remain resolute when roses writhe
To heap on you pain
As anger and angst in you seethe
In a snowstorm, in sunshine and in rain in a plain.