A Good Life Poem by Rod Morris

People through a lifetime soon enough become aware,
Safety and contentment is within their favourite chair.
Lay back your head close your eyes dream a few methinks,
Then awake refreshed once more from needed forty winks.

As minutes turn to hours and hours bleed to days,
Time moves on and passes in infinite endless ways.
A week can seem a lifetime when one you love falls ill,
A month of winter weather can sap the strongest will.

One more full year together with a close knit family,
Tightens bonds forever of what-why is meant to be.
Birthdays, anniversaries each pass in orderly formation,
For kith and kin they bring belonging, joy and elation.

Seeing children prosper as their endeavours are repaid,
Knowing full well their effort helped them make the grade.
Moving through twilight years now understanding gain,
All effort that was given was well worth tears and pain.