Here's to the Secret of Life

Here’s to life.
And life is time.
Time in life and life sublime.
The places I’ve stood.
The places I went.
I thought about the life I spent.
The life of time
This time of mine.

Here’s my life!
"The world is mine!"
To work and will
And will and wrought
And look at the life I sought.
I find it’s not the life I want.
Even though I thought nothing
Of what I’ve done with my time.
This life of mine.

Now I begin to get it.
It’s really not mine.
I just thought it was
All the time.
My life is my wife’s,
My wife’s my life
My son and my God
They have it.
I’ll make it more theirs!
… maybe tomorrow.

Here’s to my life!
The life I live
It’s the life I wanted, but not
What a thought.
How can it be neither and both?
How can it be my life of boast?
The one I say I have
It’s surely empty.
The one I really want
It’s tougher than I thought.

The reality!

Not success
But selflessness
That brings completeness.
It’s a paradox.
But not Pandora’s box.
Once opened - a lesson learned
I can go back;

Reclaim the day.
The night comes fast
It will not last.

Here’s to my new life:
All my debts repay,
All wrongs right that I have made.
New lives touch for the better
And make none feel the lesser.
Smile! No one wants to see
The dry, stern face of me
The tired life of money.
Will I listen to me?

This life of time and life sublime
Each it has little of.
Looking not to God above.
The God of love.
Little reason
Little hope
Little life in fact

A length of time not turning back.

We only think we know as we grow old
How to bring joy and peace of mind.
But, oh Boy! We got it wrong.
That’s what you taught me!

“Make lots of money and you won’t have to worry!”
“Make lots of friends and you’ll be happy!”

They were wrong and they were right.
Neither works
For their own sake.


But…
Now listen!
What’s important is the reason.
What do you have them for?
How did you get them?
Why do you try?

The truth is:

Friends will let you down
And so will family.
Stuff is temporary
And so is money.
So listen to advice
And try to be nice
Knowing that people don’t really know.
Smile. Love. Give.
That’s the life I want to live. 

To get it, I have to live it.
I have to live it, to get it.