Strive On

I made a mistake again today
Dumb things I never meant to say

I’ll strive on anyway

Wicked thoughts assail my mind
Cause for behavior so unkind

But I’ll keep striving anyway

Irksome weaknesses make me fret
A whole host of reasons for regret

I keep striving anyway

Wrong turns oft clouded my view
I traveled in days dank and untrue

I’ll just keep on striving anyway

My faults, your patience thinly bear
Astonishing how you can still care

I will strive on anyway

And now as day is drawing down
I see a smile where once a frown

I’m striving, still striving anyway

At last I see the unheralded you
How you could love me as you do.

Simply, that you were striving too

Aloha,
Aaron T Watene
Papanui the storyteller