Worry

Worry

What does worry buy you?

A change of heart from the one you love?

Not likely.

What does worry buy you, I say?

Justice, getting even, settling the score.

No way.

What does worry buy you?

A dance or a date?

Does it buy you time,

 or energy, or love.

None of the above.

Does it change the diagnosis?

of the child or the mate?

Can you spend worry on solving the problem?

It doesn’t work that way.

Worry buys you nothing,

But there is hell to pay.

Worry costs one dearly.

It costs you sleep and exhausts you deeply.

It costs your peace

and being at ease.

Worry is a robber

that takes your life away.

Thief it is,

and costly

and there is hell to pay.

What does worry buy you?

Not joy nor peace nor ease;

Worry is a robber

 who steals serenity.

Don’t give your heart to worry;

but keep that thief away!

Nor let it kill your hope, your faith;

For there is hell to pay.