Nevertheless Poem

By Sue Ellson

 

Nevertheless I waited
Nevertheless I tried
Nevertheless I listened
Nevertheless I cried

 

Nevertheless I heard
Nevertheless I saw
Nevertheless I felt
Nevertheless I’m raw

 

Nevertheless in hope
Nevertheless in faith
Nevertheless in love
Nevertheless in haste

 

Despite what’s happened
Despite it all
Nevertheless I persisted
I refused to fall

 

I carried on
I stumbled regularly
To truly be me
I kept my integrity

 

It wasn’t easy
But nevertheless
I did my best
With fervour and zest

 

Nevertheless
You can too
Nevertheless
Is my wish for you

 

I have a very dear friend in Adelaide, South Australia that sent me a lovely brooch that says ‘Nevertheless she persisted.’ That pretty much sums up all of our lives, in some way or another.

Life gives all of us ups and downs. Challenges and highlights. Joy and pain. To get to this point in time, despite all of that, we have persisted. At no point, are we ever ‘less’ because of what has happened to us.

Never-the-less.

With love, Sue Ellson 🙂

Photo is of Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula) in Ruffey Lake Park, Doncaster East, Melbourne Victoria on 30 September 2023.

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