Lessons of Life

When everything else in the world goes wrong:
No hope nor love, cheer nor song;
When there’s no one who cares to help –
That is when you turn to yourself.

Our minds, our thoughts move god’s hands
Like paltry winds that shift Sahara’s sands.
You are what you want to be;
As you sow, so you reap.

There is the man who says that, “If
I know not how, how may I live?
Nor will I try to – yet, I shall grow,
But off the sweat of another’s brow.

To carry the burden of one who feeds
Off your blood, ignoring your needs;
Cast him out so he may learn
To fall, then stand- to toil, and earn.

Mistakes you’ve made, purgatory you’ve faced.
Today, be better than what you’ve been.
Dream of what you cannot imagine;
Tomorrow be greater than what you’ve seen.