Poetry for Life – Life is Short
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Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
Throw away the garbage of melodrama and grief
Enchant your life with smiles and greets
People really adore those sweet nothings
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
A mother’s love, oh how sweet!
She cooks up dishes and makes the home neat
All her body wrinkled with grief
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
A father knows how to build all things
He teaches us ways to live
Yet he stands strong in his belief
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
We have siblings, both big and sweet
Young ones to be played upon
And the big ones to save us from bullies
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
Cherish the food that we eat
From milk to meat to even briet
They all make us strong and nourished
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
The joyous wonders, hard to relieve
The time spent with nature’s reef
The adorable beauty of a friend within
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
Friends and foes- a collective reach
There they are at life’s every leaf
The exquisite love reigning deep
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
Pain inside us-hard to relieve
Have the faith in God Almighty
He health and love, that’s all to be believed
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
Animals and pets- we have on leash
They doddle and poodle and cuddle and kiss
But they love us, beyond their reach
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
Lessons learnt and lessons we teach
Motivates some while it makes others weep
Challenges one while the others just defeat
Oh how wonderful is the world bequeath
With showers of love and dews relish
Put on the bags of trust and belief
Life is short, let’s keep it sweet
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