Confucius Says ...

Leave the world behind

Call upon the true soul in yourself

Let the song of dreams imagined

Take control.

Leave your body and fly

Into the hearts of those like you

Leave no dreams to sour

Pursue your heart's desire

Come what may.

A voice that is held back

Shall never sing.

A voice that never sings

Shall never make others smile.

Don't give up.

There is more than you believe

there to be.

In your dreams,

Do the impossible.

When life seems to give you the thorns,

Pluck them off and begin again

With only the stem.

A rose will bloom if cultivated.

There is never a point of no return.

There is never an end.

There is only new beginnings.

New directions of pursuit.

There is no try in life,

You must constantly do.

Choices are a part of life.

Make the best of all decisions.

Keep believing in childhood.

Being young is always a reality.

Play in the rain -

Refresh in youth often.

Don't hide.

Never run away.

Let light shine from within.

And light will shine back upon you.

Peace.

Jennifer Kelbaugh

August 26, 1993