Elegance

(poems go here) Lonesome in strength, deliberately growing My life is like a delicate oak tree Swaying, swinging, stretching branches asunder Crack! Boom! A nearby storm roaring in relentless thunder The weather is indifferent to my toil Memories deeply rooted Becoming more forgotten in my grounded soil But success being an inevitable friend Climbs my branches limb for limb Wrapping and burying my struggles to an end A time I can see the sunshine's hymn Through the top of the tree I stop and see A future bright and blooming for me As a blind man suddenly begins to see A silver lining outlines my branched rim My happiness begins