The Winds of Chance

The Winds Of Chance

The roads I have travelled in my life

have been winding,

   dipping through darkness and light.

From great depths of despair

  to heights that were dizzying

I lived and I learned and I found love and care.

I found the best way to turn your life around

is help someone else get their feet on the ground. 

Through friends met, gained and lost,

   I remember life is a river

and I'm just the flotsam that drifts through the currents.

  I can't control it and I don't want to. 

I put my life in the hands of forces

  beyond my human ken.

 

 I cannot control things.

I can dot every i and cross every T but 

plans can go up in flames

and many times they do.

So I make new tactics each time

and I do not give up.

Life is a wild ride 

and I drink from it's cup. 

I know this one thing:

the more you give out the more you get back. 

Energy expended becomes energy revived. 

When things are dark around you

grab for someone else's hand

and you go forward together

into the deep and into the light

and remind each other

Never give up the fight. 

Heather Lake