Never Forgotten

Interviewer to Gregory Peck:   “Considering the accomplishments of your legendary career, what do you want to be remembered for the most?”

Gregory Peck to Interviwer:  “Being a good husband and father.”

 For all the day will come

 When we no longer breathe the air. 

 A day I do not walk the earth

 And have left an empty chair. 

 What was must one day step aside

 For what will come to be. 

 I walk and wonder in this world

 About what will speak of me. 

  Birds singing above me in the trees

 Sing from birds who sang before. 

 Creatures love the young they raise 

 Because once they were adored. 

The sun rejoices for the moon

By lighting up the sky.

 The moon reflects upon the sun

 Yet we never wonder why. 

 The things I fixed and what I’ve made

 Will all fall away. 

 Yet the words I’ve written on the heart

 Will forever stay. 

The love my family has from me

Will show in my daughter's daughter’s smile.

God’s love shown through my life

Will last more than just a while.

The good seeds that we plant in life

Will almost always grow.

Yet the fruit which falls from those trees

We almost always never know.

Our light will shine through hearts we’ve loved

Like a fire spreading fast.

When our lives are held in God’s hand,

Our love forever lasts.

The Cost of Joy

 The scope of love is endless, 

 As is the human heart.

 There can be no true ending, 

 When one cannot find the start. 

 Yet free will is present, 

 Which makes love require a choice.

 No heart can be conquered,

 When the actions match the voice. 

  There is a key to happiness,
 No secret to employ.
Investing into other hearts,
 Is the cost of joy. 

 Joy is not entitled, 

 There are decisions and hard work. 

 The sweat of focused effort, 

 Behind every smile lurks.

 Because happiness can’t happen, 

 Unless it is desired. 

 For happiness is fueled, 

 From the heat of passion’s fire. 

  There is a key to happiness,
 No secret to employ.
Investing into other hearts,
 Is the cost of joy. 

 This is not a condition, 

 This is a way of life. 

 This is the bond of fire, 

 Between a man and wife.

 This is the gentle healing, 

 That cures each hurt and pain. 

 This is the way of life, 

 Which never leaves one the same. 

  There is a key to happiness,
 No secret to employ.
Investing into other hearts,
 Is the cost of joy.

 The path bears all the imprints, 

 Of legendary hearts. 

 All the nameless and the named, 

 To whom love did impart. 

 The meaning and the joys, 

 Of the endless song of living,

 The great effort towards this joy, 

Is to never stop giving.

  There is a key to happiness,
 No secret to employ.
Investing into other hearts,
 Is the cost of joy. 

Know Where You’re Going

Knowing where you’re going,

Takes knowing where you’ve been.

Life has a beginning,

But it never truly ends.

You don’t need fortune tellers,

To see around the bend.

Knowing where your going,

Requires knowing where you've been.

There are so many pathways,

To undiscovered lands.

Leading us to oceans,

Or to the desert sands.

Yet the secret to survival,

Down any of life’s roads.

Is never loosing who you are,

Wherever you may go.

Sometimes you will find,

One who has lost his way.

It is easy to loose directions,

Then forget to stop and pray.

Yet we all have a power,

Given from the Lord above.

Which will help a wayward traveler,

Through the gift of love.

Knowing where you're going,

Is knowing who you are.

Never let this go,

And you always will go far.

Let the stars at night remind you,

Life’s magic never ends.

When you know where you’re going,

By knowing where you’ve been.