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Wishful Thinking

If one can see beauty everywhere If one can find light in their despair If one can find strength when they are weak If at one's lowest they still find a peak If one with many losses can still see a gain If one feels a love through all of their pain If one can find calm in a life of distress If one can see splendor in all their mess If one can find happiness in their grief If one can fill the void simply with a belief If one can slow down in a life of rush If in one’s chaos they can find a hush If one can find mobility within restrain If one can find sanity in what is insane If one can be humble and take a seat If one can be kind to all that they meet If one can find life when not wanting to live If one can be giving with not much to give If one can still trust after all have lied If after failing one can say they tried If one can see hope when all hope is gone If one can see themselves in their kid’s to live on If in darkness you see the moon's glow is from the sun...... No wait; is this wishful thinking, or am I the only one? Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's "IF" poem A repost but updated

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Date: 2/8/2022 4:06:00 PM
what an awesome response to Kipling's poem IF. Wonderful, Brenda
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Date: 2/3/2022 8:12:00 AM
Brenda, A world full of Ifs is all we're left with sometimes. Rudyard got it right. So did you. -Richard
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Brenda Chiri
Date: 2/5/2022 3:38:00 AM
Thank you Richard!:)

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