Life.

Life is a funny old thing.
It gives you lemons, so you turn it around and make lemonade,
but then the lemonade ends up tasting like absolute shit.

Sometimes it gives you bright, beautiful flowers,
Sunny days, warm summer evenings and a brisk winter sun rise.
It gives you warm hugs and endless positivity.

There are times when everything seems bleak and cold,
and you find it hard to move without crying,
and the thought of things getting better seems impossible.

But there are also times in which everything is perfect,
you are smiling, laughing and loving,
and you couldn't imagine your life any other way.

That's the thing with life,
it's unpredictable, confusing, frustrating and heart breaking,
but it's also amazing, fascinating, interesting and incredible.

It picks you up and smashes you down, 
it brushes you off then pushes you over,
but it is always, definitely, undeniably,

beautiful.

-Rhianna Ward, August 28th 2016