Poetry

"Things Work Out"

By Edgar A. Guest

Because it rains when we wish it wouldn't,

Because men do what they often shouldn't,

Because crops fail, and plans go wrong

Some of us grumble all day long.

But somehow, in spite of the care and doubt,

It seems at last that things work out.

Because we lose where we hoped to gain,

Because we suffer a little pain,

Because we must work when we'd like to play

Some of us whimper along life's way.

But somehow, as day always follows the night,

Most of our troubles work out all right.

Because we cannot forever smile,

Because we must trudge in the dust awhile,

Because we think that the way is long

Some of us whimper that life's all wrong.

But somehow we live and our sky grows bright,

And everything seems to work out all right.

So bend to your trouble and meet your care,

For the clouds must break, and the sky grow fair.

Let the rain come down, as it must and will,

But keep on working and hoping still.

For in spite of the grumblers who stand about,

Somehow, it seems, all things work out. 

 

... This poem doesn't have any direct characters but as though you yourself is the character and the author/narrator would be the one motivating you to keep strong. So just like my flash fiction and the short story I chose they all contain two characters, one of them helping the other stay motivated. Also, in the Secret Life of Bees terrible things happen in her life that helped to motivate her to want to run away and find out more about her mother. Along the way she meets beekeeping sisters that help her discover more about her mom but also fills the motherly position she's been missing all her life. Without motivation she wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to where she is...