April 10, 2014

  • Encouragement

    And courage meant meeting life's challenges head on

    While walking in the woods
    one overcast day
    my eyes to the ground
    lost in thought
    my soul feeling down

    I noticed the fallen leaves
    in their state of decay
    the broken branches
    the soft rotten logs
    the forest in disarray

    everything I saw
    had plenty to say
    death was the friend
    who would meet me
    at the end of my stay

    That is until thunk
    a squirrel was a skunk
    hurling acorns my way
    forcing me to look up
    and thus lifted the grey

    There were birds in the trees
    their songs on the breeze
    the sun poking fun
    at a stellar blue jay
    my life was not done

    Sometimes the squirrels are people
    sometimes the trees are steeples
    sometimes it takes a few nuts
    to make us see that we can play
    and that is encouraging

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