Mindy Schaper
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YOU NEVER PROMISED

You never promised wisdom
You never promised love
You never promised happiness
Would drift down from above

You never promised vigor
You never promised health
You never promised dreams fulfilled
Or easy paths to wealth

You never promised friendship
You never promised time
You never promised talent
Profundity sublime

All You gave was chances
A garden raw and bare
In making us, You gave Your trust
A burden we can bear.



September 18th, 2018


Photo Credit:
Floris Oosterveld
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  • Home
  • Podcast
  • Poetry
    • Black Cat
    • Open Hearts
    • Art
    • The Good Fight
    • Big Shot
    • Bitterness
    • Ethan
    • New Year's
    • Kindred Spirits
    • Daffodils
    • How Do You Love Me?
    • Crossing the Verrazano
    • Distant Love
    • Priorities
    • Fallen Angels
    • Somebody's Child
    • Cans and Cannots
    • Joy
    • The Written Word
    • Love On The Train
    • Stone Heart
    • Impossible Things
    • Control
    • Passion
    • Osmosis
    • Fire
    • Break My Bones
    • God Is With You
    • Imagination
    • Humanity
    • Camera
    • On The Incompatibility of Poets and Quants
    • Papers
    • You Never Promised
    • This Is My Prayer
    • Mile in Your Shoes
    • Trust
    • Better Man
    • Death
    • Time
    • Workaholic
    • Wrong Tree
    • Lying to Myself
    • Song of Ropes of Sand
    • Withered
    • Prisoner
    • Moth
    • Eichah: The Book of Lamentations
    • Kinah 8
    • Contrast
    • Knowledge
    • The Song Inside Me
    • Rocky Path
    • Venice (Travel)
  • Music
    • Dreams
    • Love Without the Drama
    • Dreams, Despacito
  • Design
  • Other Work
  • Contact
  • About