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May we be blessed never to be afraid

to stand up for what we believe is right….

to spread peace and love and happiness…

to forgive

and to never be so afraid of dying…

we forget how we’re supposed to live.

It’s true what a wise one once said…how the older and older we grow

the more and more we learn…the less and less we know.

I don’t know why there still are wars…why there is famine poverty and strife.

I don’t know why one human…would ever take another human’s life.

I don’t know why we as humans cannot get along.

I don’t know thy the weak among us can’t be cared for by the strong.

I don’t know why there is hate and bigotry…why some people cheat and lie.

I don’t know why innocent children and babies have to die.

Thankfully, however,  

The list of things I don’t know is not limited to the wicked, sad and vile:

I don’t know why a baby’s laugh always makes me smile.

I don’t know how there can be so much beauty in the sky, the sea…the land.

I don’t know why it feels so good to hold another person’s hand.

After watching so many sunrise and sunsets I don’t know how they can still surprise.

I don’t know how tears of joy and sorrow flow from the same well in my eyes.

I don’t know how to explain love…how it can take a broken heart and heal it.

I don’t know where love comes from…I only know it…when I feel it.

I don’t know why I make wishes under the moon or upon a falling star.

I don’t know why we don’t tell each other more often…how beautiful we are.

I don’t know why a life filled with so much joy and happiness 

has it’s share of sorrow and sadness too

Hopefully these are things I might come to know before my time is through.

In the meantime I’ll keep searching for joy wherever in life I go…

In the unexplained

In the undiscovered

In all the things I do not know.