When Did You Last Giggle?

It’s important to laugh

It’s important to cry

It’s important to feel

to soar through the sky

To be heavy as a feather

or light as a boulder

To blanket in the heat

or strip when it is colder

To greet words with a smile

even if we don’t agree

To greet silence with silence

Allowing it to be

There is always more

to what we see and hear

There is always some love

beneath all the fear

Life can be so cruel

but only if we fight

It is when we surrender

that we finally see the light

A child does not judge

A child does not hate

A child has curiosity

and finds it hard to wait

It wants to see and feel

the world that it is in

It also wants to experience

that treasure that is within

Growing up we lose it

We lose our zest for life

We trade away adventure

for struggle and strife

When did you last giggle?

When did you last cry?

When did you last let it be

without asking why?

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