TO BE HAPPY JUST TO BE ALIVE
To be happy just to be alive-
To walk outside,
To look up at the sky,
To just see in green places
The world as beautiful –
To take Life
As if it in itself were of value-
To be happy just to be alive-
If one can sometimes be
Such a person.
Shalom Freedman
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