You Will Know Love
If you can make it through each day
Unconcerned with what others say.
If you can take the time to play
But get your work done, come what may.
If you win, having never fought
And mend the bridges that time tore;
Or be content with what you've got,
And very rarely ask for more;
If you can make a house a home
And happily raise children too;
If you can stay and never roam
And do it cause it's what you do.
If you can speak ill of no one
For gossip's not worth repeating.
Or stick to a task till it's done,
And never think of retreating;
If you can bank your life savings
And not risk it on a gamble,
And avoid expensive cravings
And allow your friends to ramble.
If you can force yourself to cope
And do what it takes to survive,
And live on little more than hope
And the will which keeps you alive;
If you can hold your head up high
Or stoop to help the poor and such.
If you seek truth and not a lie
If you can heal with a mere touch,
If you can be, Mother and wife;
And still find time for God above.
Yours is the Earth and a good life,
And what is more, you will know love!
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