Our Book of Life

Life is a book with it’s pages blank
on which we write our own special story.
What we write depends on us,
the way we live and how we react
to all the pain and the glory.
We can embrace life, live life to the full.
We can soak up it’s beauty, learn all we can.
We can challenge ourselves to grow and develop,
or we can stand still cocooned behind walls, brittle as glass.
We can live behind masks, decayed in the spirit,
with hearts bitter and heavy, entombed in our past,
barren in love, shadowed in hate.
We each have a choice in the paths that we take,
in the chapters we write, in the way that we live.
We each have the answer inside deep within us,
if only we listen
if only we listen.
In silence comes the answer, so clear and so true
just unlock the light and let it shine through.
Let that still inner voice, so real and so true,
bring the peace you so desire
knowing that the light of Love is always
there, deep in your heart, forever.
Wanda Brittain ©