The Tiniest Bead

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Although in winter’s day we sit

And talk of stories yet untold

Of friends and foes we have not met

Of life and future to unfold

When waiting storm begins attack

And sitting there we are afraid

Of howling winds upon our back

We pay a debt that’s yet unpaid

Of house and home and family naught

The sea has claimed all these to it

Without a chance we stood and fought

But win the sea would not permit

But now that all of us are gone

And you were not completely right

To say that what we did was wrong

To stand pig-headed and to fight

Now with the generations past

So that our children won’t forget

While growing up so strong, so fast

The ancestors they never met

We always dream of what’s to come

And with this dream we become hooked

Although we think that we have none

These simple pleasures overlooked

Of life and love we have a lot

But to this we have no regard

What we need is not sold or bought

Its only found if we look hard

Just live the life that you have now

The future will be what it wants

Just remember to take your bow

And to make your dreams more than thoughts

From deep within ourselves we need

To find the peace the world can give

As small as the tiniest bead

It is all we need to live

(2004)