Did you stop to watch the sunset over the peaceful lake?
Did you take a moment or two from your hectic life
To gaze into the western sky and see the sun go down
In splendour? It would help free you from life’s strife.
Did you stop to watch the northern lights dance across the sky?
Did you try and count the colours, or to put a name to them?
Did you see a wishing star sail through the moonless night?
Did you find the time to wish? or didn’t you even try?
Did you spot and see the signs of spring start to show?
The pussy willow’s soft velvet shoots on a small tree.
Did you stop just for a moment and smell spring in the air?
Or do you rush through live, not seeing things that are free?
Please stop to see a sunset at the end of a busy day,
Or look and notice the frail buds on the silent trees,
Stop and look upward to see a wishing star fall,
Stop, feel nature grow, and feel the gentle breeze.
For life is short and in the end what good is wealth?
We cannot take it with us when this life is done.
But I’m sure the things of nature I store in my heart
Will be in my memory after my last breath has gone.
M Ann Margetson April 1 1998 ©
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