Try Leaving Footprints

Have you ever heard a song you just couldn't sing?
Or wanted to fly, but hadn't any wings?

Have you ever smelled a rose that pricked you in return?
Or longed to know something you weren't ready to learn?

It seems so hard to trust life at all,
When it keeps adding doors to an already long hall.

Which door to open and which one to keep shut?
Which one to enter and which to lock up?

How do you know when to advise or to keep out,
When you're not even sure what your own life's about?

Just keep walking forward and leave footprints on the way.
You'll then be remembered
For cherishing each and every day.

Copyright © 2001 by Shana Wilson

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