Where You Stand
In my youth, I asked
myself
“What way is best
for people to behave?”
Then one day
my tortoiseshell cat,
Carrie
came to get me to stay
by her side
when it was time
for her to have her
first litter.
I remember her green
eyes,
worried and hopeful
as if to ask for a
comforting touch.
Then I knew it's best
to have empathy and
care
for all souls, animal
and human.
Years later, one sad
morning
someone hit me hard and
vindictively.
I asked life why they
would
do a thing like that.
Later that day,
another person confided
in me,
“You never really
have known pain
until you look someone
you love very much in
the eye
and see only the bare
glare
of blank daylight
gleaming back.”
I knew then humans
strike out only because
of fear, ignorance, or
pain.
For many years
I asked, “Is there a
God?”
Then one evening I saw
a sunset that bathed me
with a quiet golden air
so beautiful that I
wept.
And I knew then
that it doesn't matter
if there's a God or
not.
It is sufficient to
know
that there ought to be.
Now, it's a fact
questions are as common
as blue June sky.
One of the secrets in
life, my friend
is that if you have
the eyes and heart to
see
answers are too.
Long ago, I decided
what I wanted most in
life
was to learn.
It took me years to
realize
that life gives us each
an endless supply
of change, curiosity,
questions, and answers.
It's just up to each of
us
to decide to use them.
Leave half a glass of
water
setting in the street,
and a few will
stand around arguing
whether it's is half
empty
or half full,
till somebody else
wanders by and offers
someone who's thirsty a
drink.
Good to know
it's usually more the
matter
of where you choose to
stand
than of what you go
through.
Dewey Dirks
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