Think back along your younger years, on what you did;
Perhaps as far back as when you were just a kid.
Most likely you lived through those years with one concern’
Yourself! Intent only on what you had to learn.
And everything outside that field was hardly touched at all;
Some grudgingly, so few things fell inside that wall.
You lived through those years pretty much without a fear;
And that would stay that way despite but little cheer.
When you experienced those periods described as strife,
You never looked at it as changes in your life.
But you were being prepared for what would lay ahead;
For what would happen later held you in good stead.
So your abilities to meet a problem would
Rise to the occasion for the common good.
In moments such as these, decisions you make then
Will be a guiding light that’s needed where and when!
© Richard Williams