People - Visitor's Poem

by Jenna Feldman
(Illinois, USA)

People move. We move on, we move forward.
We learn from our mistakes and remember what we did right.
Some of us only make it through the day so we can dream.
We learn from children about the best way to deal with life.
Everyday we learn that yesterday was
a little bit better than we thought.
Every breath we take is another way of saying I want to live today.
We watch miracles happen every second,
what we don't recall is that in some little way we helped it happen.
What we never seem to realize is that
we do something amazing everyday,
but don't see its meaning to someone else.
We lie because the truth is a little boring.
We sing because it's the way our soul can speak.
We love whenever we can.
We jump off cliffs so we can feel alive.
We spend our days dreaming and our nights remembering.
We do live in a world with good people,
people who would rather spend the day helping with the kids
rather than talking about what they are going to do.
We sit back and watch and think about what we could have done.
We are happiest when we are with the ones we love.
We fall in love with anything and everything.
We ask questions because we don't know,
we know because we were taught.
We hide because we aren't ready to be seen.
We live that last day because we wanted to.