Backwards Version

 
It always seems unfair
that those who cry and fail and break
receive the wanted item
–  I’ve seen it happen –
     
while I, who say,
“Even what is dearest
you may take away,”
gain strength to lose.
 
I don’t think he meant it that way,
but Christ said,
“To those who have,
it shall be given,
and from those who don’t have,
it shall be taken away.”  [i]  
 
Would that  my fortitude
 had a better attitude
 

[i]  Matthew 13:12-13, Jesus says  –
“To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away.  This is why I speak to them in parables, because ‘they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.’  ”