Have I Lost who I am?

I brought you forth, long years ago

With love, with pain, with Joy,

Carefully i tended you,

Guarded you, guided you

That you might grow and thrive.

That you might learn

That you might love

That you might know the joy it is

Just to be alive.

You were you -

Not just a shadow of some other life.

Different from all others.

God placed in you

An individual charm,

A warmth that radiated from your heart

To all who came in touch with you

And made each day a thing apart.

And now you ask -

“Have I lost who I am?”

Sorrow and pain and joy

Come into every life - soon or late,

And with it, always, comes the question “Why”

Some become bitter, filled with hate.

Some give up and say ‘tis fate’,

But some take up the strings

And start again.

Do this and you will find yourself,

Warmer, sweeter, wiser.

A deeper, richer YOU.

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