Life can be a gift
or even seemingly a curse,
just as water can drown
or relieve a drying thirst.
It can fill your eyes with beauty
of trees, mountains and seas,
or it can be seen as dark clouds,
driving winds and dead leaves.

Life can fill your heart with
the song of birds
and the joy of laughter,
or your heart can be torn by vultures
and filled with misery and pain thereafter.
Yes, life can even enshroud you
with kindness and love overflowing,
or even abuse the child,
wound its heart and
stunt its growing.

Ah, life... its mysteries and challenges,
loves and losses, its pain and gains,
each one an inevitable choice to
tame its mountains or alone
roam its plains.
Yes, life is a gift given
of God's love together with choice,
the choice to lament its pains
or revel in its beauty and rejoice.