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The Times of My Life

There are times when I sing in the shower
Times when I cry in the day
There are times when I must sit for hours
And times when I can run away

There are times when I’m shaking with laughter
My body trembles with joy
And times when I’m still chasing after
the dreams I had when I was just a boy

There are times when I must be responsible
And provide for this family I have
There are times when I am mostly happy
And times when I am sometimes sad

There are times when I must quietly whisper
Times when I can scream and shout
You put all of these times together
Well, that is what life’s all about

There are times when I sing in the shower
Times when I cry in the day
I hope I have time tomorrow
To do what I didn’t do today

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Cecilia Macfarlane

Date: 4/5/2012 4:54:00 PM

Awesome write and message Joe!

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 3/14/2012 8:37:00 AM

Good morning ;-) joe very insightful , thank you for sharing your wonderful poem. Have yourself a good one*always~pd"

Rhonda Johnson-Saunders

Date: 3/14/2012 1:43:00 AM

Loving this poem tonight, Joe! I'm having one of those sad days. My dog died (no kidding) :(... I hope I'll be singing in the shower again soon. Thanks for sharing. Rhonda

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/14/2012 12:00:00 AM

GREAT poem. Is it for any contest? I really liked how the last stanza summed up an important point: that always we want to improve and fit into tomorrow even more than what we accomplished today. (well, joe, I am not perplexed by ALL the contests, just a few of them!!! Right now there are so many nice ones that I truly enjoy writing for, I just put the really difficult ones on the back burner and hope I can get to them!!)