Calamity

Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind. ~ Fortune cookie

Who would welcome calamity?
Nobody but a thrill seeker
and they wouldn't unless they thought
they'd turn it around.
But who would look back,
grateful to have passed through.
Many folks if they are honest,
seeing how much they grew
through the confrontation.
What is a touchstone?
A real stone for testing alloys,
for finding one containing gold.
But more than that a standard,
a measuring rod by which,
if of the mind, the mind is judged.
Calamity, then, can forge us,
discover backbone we'd never found,
and prove our self esteem
can stand a reexamination.
Besides, how better can we allow
a power greater than we could be
to show up, to prove what we long to know?