Still Seated

standing ovation
I focus on the one
still seated ~ Carlos Colón aka Haiku Elvis

The song says, "You raise me up
so I can stand on mountains...
you raise me up to more than I can be"
and while that's true, my remorseful eyes
see what could have been before...
before I found relief, before I surrendered,
before I was raised to heights beyond my dreams...
and my focus remains on those things,
on wasted years, on my damaged body,
on the negative. I cannot change the past
nor the future.
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the differenceand to rejoice in being raised up today.