Tricks My Dog Taught Me

I try and I try, I really try,

I plan, I scheme, I even fight,

I do, I hope for I am right,

But yet I cannot. 

I try again I do not quit,

I go and throw quite a fit,

I get angry, I do not sit,

But yet I cannot. 

Now I am mad so very mad,

I have failed and I am sad,

Why oh why a day gone bad,

But yet I cannot. 

Now I stop to think, to ponder,

A wasted day in which I flounder,

Forgetting to pray, trust and wait,

For without God, I cannot.

© Priscilla Carvalho, May 2009