Did You Create Value In Your Life Today?

If you look at your life as it's passed today,
Have you created value as you've gone your way?
Have lived your principles and followed your heart?
Have you captured each moment to the fullest part?

Consider your body, your physical being,
Do you treat it with awareness? Are there things you're not seeing?
For it's not just some garment that you can discard;
It is how you exist here, don't let it be scarred.

If you move to your mind, your thoughts and your speak,
Have they been good and focussed or idle and weak?
Are they driving you forward on your chosen way?
Or lost in the past; maybe worried beyond today?

From thoughts come emotions and then how you act.
We can deal with them wisely, stay steadfast in fact.
Did you use your emotions to the best that you can?
Or were they so overwhelming that they ruined any plan?

When you met other people, spent time in their lives,
Did you do it with care and respect, or with knives?
Share and give and enhance mankind?
Or lacking commune, take all you could find?

When you went about working the path of your life,
Did you do it with presence and peace, or with strife?
Energy, enthusiasm, purpose and delight?
Or resistance and effort, pain and fight?

If you look at your life as it's passed today,
Have you created value as you've gone your way?
Have lived your principles and followed your heart?
Have you captured each moment to the fullest part?

Juliet du Preez, 30 January 2009