It should be
the personal
not the general
voice-- that's true poetry--

we look at life
and its every scene
through our eyes particular
of what we have felt and seen-

the joys that lift our hearts
the sorrows within that hide
in the oscillations of time
and circumstances-- what will abide

are sentiments that enhance
ennoble and inspire above all
love, beauty and compassion
in future long years to happily recall.