Worth the Trip

Life didn’t turn out the way I planned,
But it’s been good, real good,
Better than real good, really,
To spite the pain.
And I’m ok.
And I am grateful for it all, 
Grateful for the thing that I could be
To spite not being all that I had hoped to be.
And I’m grateful for the people that I touched,
To spite the times I failed them,
And grateful for the ones I loved
Though I did so imperfectly
And with many flaws.
Perhaps it is not possible
To be all that we hope to be.
But we come anyway.
We come and love.
And I still believe, 
To spite it all
That it is worth the trip.