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Have you ever wondered
when something has happened to you?
Yes wondered why it has
and what you should do?
Well this has recently happened to me
and I couldn’t see what the reasoning was,
but if we open our eyes we will see,
G-d has a reason for all that he does.
Now having said that
I want you to know,
that He will give fruit
from the seeds that we sow
Just make them kindness
and friendship and love
and He will bless them
right now from above.
And when you meet
someone on the street
Just give them a smile,
don’t look at your feet
let them your happiness
share on this day
That G-d will help them,
if they follow His way.
So make up your mind that you will try to be happy
and love your own neighbor as much as yourself
Just put on a smile and make others so happy
instead of stowing your smiles on the shelf.
by billy kirwan
written spring 1973 © 2007
A note from Billy
This poem was written in the spring of 1973, less than a year after a head on automobile collision which killed both my mother and 4 year old brother and left me crippled for life. I broke both legs near the knee, and my left hip -- which was not discovered for 6 weeks. I was knocked unconscious and broke my left wrist also.
It did not take a rocket scientist to realize that my dreams of attending the United States Military Academy at West Point were gone, but many things did work out for the good. You see, we had an adopted grandma in a hospital, who had fallen and broken her left hip. She was in horrible pain all the time and I could not understand it. I understand her pain now, and try to understand when others are hurting too. . . By the way I never got to West point… . . .
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