Resilience

Your words of wisdom,
Of advice,
Always seem to put me in the right.
We both can’t take our own advice,
So we get it from one another.
We have sat,
When one of us wasn’t willing
To admit that something was wrong.
We sat,
Sometimes for a long time,
Until we worked it out,
Figured out what was wrong,
Encouraged each other that things will get better,
That the good times are coming.
Loss is terrible,
But you have conquered it,-
Shone strength,
And will to persevere.
To overcome the hard times,
And the pain we try to contain from the world.
You have shown me how to overcome the worst pain,
How to help a situation,
And when it is time,
To tell people certain things.
I respect you,
And you have shown resilience,
You have shown me resilience.
Thank you for that,
It is something that I will carry with me always,
Thank you.

By: Josette Kochendorfer
Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory High School


this poem is dedicated to, an about Aaron Stoien