DAY 25 - COME WITH ME

Come with me along life's pathway

Come with me and see things fresh and anew.

Come with me back to your childhood

Come with me far back to your birth.

Come with me and study anew

Study anew the form of a babe

Study anew the fingers and toes

Study anew the cry of that child

Study anew the voice as it changes

Study anew the acquisition of language.

Come with me and learn as you look

Look at the height this child has attained

Look at the strength of those arms and legs.

Look at the beauty of emerging maturity.

Look and remember that this was you.

Come with me and remember the joy

Remember the thrill of learning and doing

Remember the happiness you showed and you gave

Remember again the laughter, the sorrow

Remember emotions that you had forgotten.

Come with me as you grow older and need

Need from those others what you gave to them

Need the support and the guidance and love

Need help on occasion with life's little tasks

Need understanding and helping

Need love and smiles and laughter again.

Come with me now as you rest in love's arms

Come with me knowing you lived well

Come with me on this final path

Come with me holding hands with love

Come with me as you remember with joy

Come with me at life's ending

Come with me, giving one last smile.

Come with me – come with me – come with me.

 DAY 26 – A CURTAL SONNET ON 'LIFE'.

A paean praising life itself should be

Written in words of glowing gold I think.

Life that holds happiness and joy the key

To love of all we need, for care the link.

Such faith we should be taught at Mother's knee.

Life thus will hold us up ere we can sink.

Respect for everything in life we know

Has taught that joy well shared will help us all

To glory in the thrill of high and low.

To share life's ups and downs lest we all fall.

Life is life itself ….