Trials

So I was listening to a talk by John Bytheway called "rough start great finish".  Anyways he made up this poem, I thought it was funny and cool so I typed it up.  Maybe you have to listen to it for it to be funny, I don't know.

Some people like to wonder, why is my life so tough

Mortality is full of trials and every day is rough

They say, "Hey Lord I’m being good why punish me with trials?"

I thought if I chose the right, I’d have a life of smiles

So here are some things within a poem that we musn’t disregard

Which hopefully you’ll answer why our lives can be so hard

Nephi crossed a desert to find a place to build a ship

I think we’d all agree that this was not a pleasure trip

A wilderness, dark and dreary, lay before the tree of life

You must fetch Ishmales family, before you find your wife

A wilderness will always come before the promised land

Before they sowed in dark rich soil, they saw a lot of sand

The kind of things that they went through we go through now today

Here’s twenty-five examples of how things can be that way

You’ve got to eat the cracker jacks before you get the prize

You have to sit through drive through before you get your fries

I drove a Chevy Vega before my Honda Prelude

I had to take my finals man before I got my grade, dude

Before the eighty’s music came we had to go through disco

Before the Teflon frying pan we used to cook with Cristco

You do a lot of dating son before you find your honey

The bank officers will check your past before they loan you money

Enjoy the small apartment kids before you find a home

My franklin planner weighed a ton before I bought a palm

You have to pass the food court before you reach the mall

And I was really really short before I got this tall

It takes a lot of courage boys to ask the girls to dance

Without the risk of asking though, you’ll never find romance

The ugly duckling came before the really pretty swan

You’ve got to pull the dandelions to have a gorgeous lawn

Could take 300 Wonka bars to find a golden ticket

To eat that pile of chocolate, boy you’ve really gotta dig it

We shovel snow in winter time before we get to spring

Some guys will sacrifice their Jeep to get a wedding ring

It’s half a dozen previews then the feature presentation

And only after eighth grade trials comes high school graduation

Airport security must be passed before you find your gate

It’s odd but much of traveling is stand in line and wait

You’ve got to go through rush hour then you park in your garage

You have to do stuff for your wife to earn a back massage

Hours of piano lessons came before the big recital

The Cugars played the U of U before they won the title

Perhaps I should get to the point before this poem gets longer

I guess is what I’m trying to say, is trials make you stronger

So when you have a problem there’s no reason to complain

It might just be that all that’s wrong is for your eternal gain

Next time a trial comes along don’t gripe or write a letter

Just see what’s really going on, your problems make you better

I hope my amateurish poem my point will not diminish

Sometimes a rough start comes before a really awesome finish