88 Keys to Try and Play

88 Keys to Try and Play

By: the iHope Poet

There once was a little girl.

She had a dream for her life;

If only she could learn to play,

To sing, to know, to write.

There once was a growing girl.

She decided to try in life.

She tried to play the 88 keys

And sing and dance and write quite nice.

Then there was an older girl

With some friends who pushed her on.

But no matter how hard she attempted to live,

It seemed her goals had turned all wrong.

There were many times that this girl cried.

She was alone and felt defeated.

Everyone she knew out-bested her

So she deemed that life had cheated.

And then this tired girl realized

She just could not give up.

As a little girl she had committed to try,

And with that she smiled, worked and prayed for luck.

Every day this girl practiced

To sing, to play, and write.

The next few years she grew so wise

She became full of truth and light.

Once there was an accomplished woman.

She had her gold in life.

Her daughter came up to her and asked,

“Mama, sometimes is suffering alright?”

And this mother replied to her,

“I’ve learned a lesson well:

It’s that if you want to succeed in life

The choice is yours to tell.

You never will best anyone

Or be a star of fame.

But be humble and try

In all you do

And you’ll never feel regret or shame.”

There once was an aged woman.

She lived with little breath.

She did not try to speak last words,

But smiled in her death…