Life has its hiccups

Life has its ups and downs -
So we have to know when to laugh and clown...
Life has its sunshine days and days of murky clouds -
So we have to accept those lashings and those frowns...
 I've been looking at life from the bright side -
Willing myself never to despair...
Though sunny days have dark clouds hovering nearby -
I'll just take each in my stride, as they come by...
So I'll not be daunted, nor be persuaded to let go -
For the shattered dream would cut deep into his heart, not just mine...

"No one can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today to make a new ending"

No, it's true that we can never go back in time -
To start a new page, a new beginning...
But we can decide to stop, and think, today - 

And start to make a new ending...
For whatever happens in the past, is irreversible  -
As it has already passed, and become history...
Whatever will happen in the future, is not ours to worry -
Till we've learnt to look into the future, or stepped into that mystery...
So I'll just live for the present, so I'll have no regrets -
When it becomes the past; and welcome the future, for come it must...

God sets the plan

Yes, that's what I feel:
That God plans everything,
Big and small - 
And sends Destiny to make all happen...
For I feel that He watches over us all -

With the love of a parent for his children... 

And He plans for our past, present and future -
And sets Destiny to carry out those plans... 

So I believe that whatever happens to us, Has His knowledge, His consent, and His blessings...

Life is too good to be sad

Yes, life is too good to feel sad -
Or to even fret,
For after all the sunshine there's bound to be some rain -
Or stormy weather...
So just let the rains come -
And even the stormy weather,
For I'll not feel sad, or even fret -
Coz life is too good, and too short, to fret... 

 So I'll thank God for His love and kind thoughts -
And take the sunshine together with the rain...

Just give me a day of your life...

Just give me a day of your life -
That's all I will ask for: just one day...
For I feel a great deal can be achieved -
If I could have just one day like today...
For when one is given just one day -
One will surely treasure every moment... One will make every passing minute count - 

And savour every moment of the 24 hours... 

 So I'll just ask to be given one precious day, today -
And then ask to be given the same - one day - tomorrow...

Just let me be me...

You can be you - or anyone else you fancy - 

But i implore you to just let me be me...
For to tie me down and mould me into someone like you -
Would just be like keeping a caged bird to slowly die...
For I would love to be able to run free -
Do the things I love and see the beauty around me...
I would love to be able to rise with the morning sun -
And to go to bed  when the owl hoots, and the crickets sing...
So just let me be me - not your double, or someone else's twin -
For I would not want to be anyone else but simple old me...

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever..."

Yes, a thing of beauty brings joy to the world -
And we would not be tired of looking at it forever...
For even when the beauty is gone from sight -
We would have it stashed away in our memory forever...
A sunrise or sunset brings joy to my heart - 

So do blue skies and fluffy white clouds, and birds in the trees...
I love to study the gray clouds as they churn up a storm -
And love to see colourful umbrellas come up as the raindrops fall...
Yes, we will find joy in our heart everyday of our life -
If we would only pause, and take a look at the beauty around us...