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I asked my Australian friends how they built a family filled with such happy memories. The answer I got stayed with me and eventually became a part of this poem.  "It doesn't suddenly happen overnight, you build it in slow incremental steps"
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                                      Beverley
CHILDHOOD DREAMS
 

Why was it somewhere along the way, I lost my childhood dreams

Maybe because the path I took, led to commerce and its schemes

Today there is nothing left, of that innocent wide-eyed child

Who'd expected to conquer the world, and who really had tried

With a pure and open heart, and the blind eagerness of youth

To change what was hated into loved, and lies into the truth

 

They sit now in this tower block, reflecting upon my past

Questioning all those childhood dreams, asking why they did not last

I should be happy but I'm not, for there's nobody to share

The trappings of the rich and famous, which lay around me here

When did I start to think that wealth, and power were everything

Now I realise that joy comes from, a few very simple things

 

Like family and loving friends, who'll be there until the end

Sharing all life's ups and downs, and giving you the chance to spend

Time building the kind of memories, you won't want to forget

Because they've been put together, in slow incremental steps 
If I had my life to live over, I know now what I'd do

To avoid making the same mistakes, I'd hold on tight to you

Mindfull Living

              MINDFULLY  LIVING

 

To become enriched by a new awareness

of a world you previously did not clearly see

And to improve your well-being as you learn

to follow the path of living mindfully

 

First don't allow the past make you live with

feelings and thoughts of sorrow and regret

Or settle for something because it is the

easy thing to do or you will risk the threat

 

Of falling out of love with both yourself

and then naturally, the life you now lead

However by keeping three important things

open you will slowly but surely succeed

 

Simply  by keeping your heart, mind and eyes 

open you will eventually be able to see

How wonderful things can be when you start

           "living your life mindfully"

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