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Your Book, Your Life, Your Song

There are those
Who will tell you
How to write your book
They will tell you
What has to be at the beginning
How you should develop your plot
Your characters
And many
Will even tell you
How it should end
What they will not tell you
Is that this is your book
And it is yours to write
Not theirs

There are those
Who will tell you
How to sing your song
They will tell you
What key you should sing it
When to sing it fast
When to sing it slow
When and where
You should show emotion
And once again
How your song will end
And like before
They will not tell you
This is your song to sing
Not theirs

There are those 
Who will tell you
How to live your life
They will tell you
What schools you should attend
When and who you should marry
How you should make your living
And many times
Who you should worship
And even how to pray to them
And as before
Often they will tell you
How your life should end
Again what they won’t tell you
Is that this is your life to live
Not theirs

My message to you today 
Is simple

Write your own book
You can start at the back
And finish at the front
You can even have the words backwards
If you wish
In the end 
This is your book to write

Sing your song
As only you can sing it
Let the words flow from your heart
Whisper if you wish
Or shout until you rattle the windows
Only you know the words
And this is your song to sing
It belongs to no one else
But you

Live your life
As only you can live it
Let no person tell you
What you can
Or can not do
Remember 
It is the face in the mirror
That you must live with each day
Do you best to make the world around you
A better place
For yourself
And for others
And let God decide
How and when
Your life will end

Write your own book
Live your own life
And sing your own song

And bring a joyful noise
Unto this world

Ed Roberts 4/18/15
www.edrobertspoetry.com

Copyright © Ed Roberts | Year Posted 2015

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