LOOK DEEP As you look deep into these aging eyes Do you see a child with a soul still free The heart of a child beats inside this body Although the aged shell is all you now see Can you see the joy of youth still playing From behind these time-worn eyes An inner light shines as bright as the stars Still living beneath this thin disguise How cruel the passing years seem to be With our costumes changing as we age From infant to child, then young to old Facing new problems witht every stage It's as if we were many different people The adult barely resembling the child The external changes being so complete Young and old are rarely reconciled The way to get the whole picture, it seems Is to think of everyone that we see As the child they were, who they are today And the old person they soon will be There are some whose eyes still glimmer For whom the child within never dies Most who observe, see only the shell Never knowing where youthfulness still lies What can we learn from all these changes Could be the fact that nothing stays real How can we be judged by a deceptive facade That only hides the way we truly feel The day shall arrive when we’re dead and gone When our short lives on earth are done With all our trials rendered null and void And all our battles either lost or won No matter what, “life will always carry on” You have read this in many a verse The same is true for every person we meet We will make each life somewhat better or worse Thus, we should measure disheartening words And make sure that they needed to be spoken So we won't be among those who caused dismay If they reach the end of a life, heartbroken And when those we've known are old and gray Remembering the years they left behind Comforting words we said, might return again With the memory that we were kind RoKo