As we wind down the road of life,
one learns that people will forget what
you said to them and forget what
you did for them,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel,
unless of course they
were never real.

Falling down or getting
knocked down is part of living
but getting back up is living
and everyone that
you meet is fighting some
kind of battle with themselves,
with someone or with
something.

You have to forget the bad
and forget the pain because it
will go away and you will live
to see another day
no matter what they had
to say about you.

Sometimes it just hurts
so bad and you become so sad
that you find that you must
turn it around and let
the other person be the clown
and then they will be
the one wearing
a frown.

So you just focus on the good
even though you did everything
that you could
because life is too short to be
anything but happy
even thought some peoples behavior
is really ******.

So break the rules
and forgive quickly, kiss again slowly,
laugh again uncontrollably
and never regret anything
that makes you
smile.  

Try to live each day
to the fullest knowing that
you went that
extra mile knowing
that you would be
left on the floor in a pile,
but you went
out in style and
got back up
on your feet again
knowing that next time
you will win.                               Jon York         2011