If I told you

Would you loosen your grip on the steel?            

If I told you tomorrow’s gleeful tales

What would you do if I told you now?

morrow will wipe the sweat off your brow

If I told you about a plan called life

Would you choose it come sorrow or strife?

And filled it with lines of hope

The likes of Frost, Whitman and Pope

Smiles will fade, let me not lie

The happiest will nod an “aye”

But, remember after you’ve cried your last tear

Emerge and meet life brave and square

Now would you please?

Loosen the grip on the steel

Life’s a rollercoaster, not a Ferris wheel