Life’s Joy…

I think I had mixed feelings about this poem, but the older I get the more I realize that you are giving so many opportunities that you let pass you by, and then you think that it’s all over and nothing can be fixed. Sometimes that is true, but while you’re young you have to know that when things get hard you don’t just give up, because it’s the hard things that make you strong… so never forget that Life can be unfair but it’s there, and it’s worth living.

Your Day Is Someday

© Taralyn Southam

Simple gifts of joy

Are life’s special memories

So many forgotten daily treasures

Is like someone who won’t read a book

The cover is opened and closed without thought

As you see every blue sky

And cloudless day,

Warm rain, on a sunny summer day

You walk by as you self-consciously stray

And so many joyful memories are forgotten

Just like that they go rotten

And as the hours go by

And life goes on

So many wonders to see

And you just run by carefree

As you listen to life’s chime

You stand aside waiting for your time

But your time is when you realize

Just what you forgot

And how you walked into a big ole knot

And that as you stand aside

Your future flies by

Like it will not see you

And then you hate how it took so long for you to see

That life’s joy was every rotten memory

Life is Finding Yourself a Joy