Just The Other Day Poem by Arti Chopra

just the other day I was young and carefree
running to school, unable to see
what lay ahead in life,
the changing of a child into a woman
a woman into a wife

a wife into a mother
a mother into a grandmother
and ahead there is no other

ahead lies only old age and death
how time has advanced with cunning and stealth
alas that I could relive my years
banish the doubts and the fears
live the carefree days of youth again
know the unimmportance of loss and gain

just be myself in those wonderful years
in the company of my wiser peers
each phase in life is a teacher
and every happening like a inspiring preacher

it fashions you into a more mature beeing
makes you more knowing, all seeing
teaches you to take the good with the bad
cirumstances that would have driven you mad

but now we carry on, patiently reknewed, blessed
all fears and doubts now supressed
because we know.He is there for us
a silent presence.divine, without fuss
in every nook and corner of this wonderful world
he created........... just for us

I give thanks to him
every minute of the day
I give thanks to him
for showing us the way
Igive thanks to him for this wonderful world
into which I was born just the other day