“It’s going to be okay”

November 2026 Poetry Month, Day 6

Hydrangea, Vancouver British Columbia Temple

“It’s going to be okay”

We wait sometimes
for a long time
for a shout out
that everything is going to be okay.
Yet the shout out
doesn’t appear immediately.
In fact, it may never happen.
Our hearts digress.
Our minds float onto other things.
Our ears strain to hear
the refrain from others.
Our souls shudder.
But within ourselves,
we can see and feel
that it’s going to be okay
because we think it,
we will it,
we sing it,
we do it,
we move it along
as we trundle
forward, ever forward,
stopping along the way
to rest, reinvent ourselves.
Our thoughts and actions,
respond in positive ways
by ganging up
on the negative,
shoving it to the side,
chasing it away
out of sight
out of mind,
seldom looking back,
lessening its weight
on our psyche
and our doing
what we need to become.

Yes, it’s going to be okay.

Ketchup and Mustard Dahlia