Look For The Silver Lining

Look For The Silver Lining 

When things are bad

and have gone to worse,

and you feel as though 

you've been given a curse,

an annoying little chirper

may cheep, 

and peep, 

and pipe,

popping positive phrases

of persuasion, 

into your equation.

Trying to draw light 

from the event or the occasion.

The thing you tend to hear the most

is common in England from coast to coast,

it's a metaphor by and by

hoping to alleviate and pacify

one's gloomy situation.

With the demonstration,

of the dark dreary cloud

as your negative hovering shroud,

"Every cloud has a silver lining".

A way of portraying

the prospect of finding,

an aspect of shining, 

in every unfortunate event,

said with the encouragement and intent

to appease and ease one's mind.

No matter how bad it may seem

try to find the silver shining gleam,

it's somewhere there 

in the wider scope of things,

where a little ray of hope sings,

a song of optimism.

By Toni Cairns 

@babbspoetry