Making The Difference

Making The Difference

© by Bud Lemire on April 10, 2006

How many times have you awakened on your bed

Wondering what difference you made, if you were dead

What would they say

If they found you this way

Would you make a difference, to people you know

Would the presence you made, help others to grow

The kindness you gave, would it be passed around

While your body would lay buried, in the underground

Would the time you shared, be in their memory

To give them strength, upon their life's journey

Or would it be forgotten, as time moved along

Like an out of print record, no more on that song

I'd like to think each life, is valued by those

Whose spirits intermingle, while the soul grows

Whether happiness found, or lost in pain

So much from life, is what we gain

Sharing a life, brief as it may be

Teaches us more, than any eye can see

We learn about life, and the roles we play

When we should go, or when we should stay

The difference you make, could change someone you know

Making someone feel better, by words you let flow

The next time you wonder

Let there be thunder

Let the rain pour

Yet never ignore

What your life is for

Touch the many, and touching more

Your life touches us so much more than

you'll ever realize. You do make a difference

every day of your life, as it touches others in

an amazing way. Remember this always.