In this life, we’ll all end up losing loved ones, people who meant so much to us and people who pointed us in the right direction. In the scale of the universe, our life is indeed short, yet you have the opportunity to make it a great life and you need to pack in as much as you can to it as you can.

Its those footprints that you leave behind for your loved ones that’ll make the heartache you leave behind, eventually bearable. Just be simply the best person you can be each day, you are on this earth.

A Short Life

It’s a short life, from our birth til our end,

for the family we tend, from the values we blend

It’s the journey we start, not knowing the end,

fashioned by those we befriend, and the signals we send

It’s a short life, yet we grow and we fend,

our hearts break and they mend, as we continue to ascend

Through our fate which we form, then shape and amend

and eventually tend, to become who we are by the end

It’s a short life, on this earth that we spend,

we give all we intend, to those we extend

To those that we touch, the advice that we lend,

teach and comprehend, memories we share and attend

It’s a short life, which we cannot extend,

beyond ashes to tend, and our tears which descend   

It’s the footprints we leave, and the joy we extend,

to those we embrace as our friend, to our resting end

It’s a short life, it’s a great life, it’s a short life.

 

R G Robb © 2022