For You

(not an original MW poem, but one of my favorites)

Sometimes

Sometimes things don't go, after all
from bad to worse. Some years muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect a honest man; decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some people become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we are meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen : may it happen for you.