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by Teresa Downing


WHAT WILL THEY VIEW
WHEN YEARS FROM NOW AND THERES NO MORE YOU...
AND THEY HAPPEN UPPON THAT BOX ON THE SHELF
THAT ONCE HELD YOUR SHOES BUT NOW HOLDS YOUR 'SELF'

YOU'VE LONG SINCE GONE TO PASTURES NEW
YET HERE YOU ARE ALL SHINEY AND NEW

LOOK CLOSER...TELL ME...WHAT DO YOU SEE
STARE... INTO THE EYES THAT BE
A THOUSAND EMOTIONS PRESERVED LIKE JAM
WAS IT CAPTURED WHEN YOU DID NOT GIVE A DAMN

WHO YEARS FROM NOW WILL SEE YOUR FACE
DO YOU WANT IT REMEMBERED WITH SHEER DISTASTE

SO SMILE FOR THE CAMERA STAND TALL AND SAY
'I AM HAPPY AND GLAD IM LIVING THIS DAY'
AND WHEN LIFE HAS NO MEANING AND THINGS GET YOU DOWN
PICK YOURSELF UP FROM SORROW AND SMILE...DONT FROWN.

YOUR A LIFE FORCE OF LOVING, OF WISDOM WITHIN
AND THE ‘YOU’ IS HIDDEN BENEITH THE SKIN.
KNOW THAT... WHEN YOU SMILE THAT DAY
FOR THE PICTURE THAT YEARS FROM NOW WILL SAY...

I SERVED MYSELF WELL IN THE TIME I HAD HERE
AND I HOPE IN THIS PICTURE 'I' SHINE THROUGH CLEAR...

By Teresa Downing

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