Love in this place

BY LINE WRITTEN BY LYNN PETRONELLA

Love in This Place

As I grow up I learn to see

Love all around surrounding me

The love and care of a well made meal

An afternoon swing, a home base steal

A classroom of eager young hearts and minds

Of old peoples hands and furry friend finds

A face that lights up when I walk in the room

An afternoon storm snuggled up in the gloom!

A tired but happy friend whose been lost

A deed that is donated for free without cost!

A time in the day to reflect and just be

To look at the beauty of nature embracing me

There's love in this place, there's love I tell you here

It's wherever you wonder and always quite near.

You may say you don't feel it, but I say open your EYES!

Around everyone corner is ALWAYS a love surprise!

It's in the mountains and praries the fields and the sky

It's in ponies and puppies and new babies that cry

It's in mothers arms who wash dishes and clothes

Go to school , work too and still strike a happy pose!

It's in the homeless, the sick the unhappy the lame

There's love in them to, and it's all just the same!

It's not what it looks like on the outside you see....

Sometimes it lays hidden where the human eye cannot see

That is why you must teach your heart to see more,

There's LOTS of love there behind the sick and the poor.

They remind us that we must take care of each other

Not pass the buck but be GOOD to our brother.

There is love in this place, this land we call home

So much love in this place no one should EVER be alone

So let the love in this place become the verb it should be

Let this love in this place reach across America for you and for ME!

Let the love in this place heal the sick and hurting too

Let love in this place bring peace that's over due!

Let the love in this place grow stronger each day

Let it shine, let it sing, let it come out to play!

Let the love in this place bring all of us together

TO heal all old wounds and once again become brothers!

Copyright © 2002 Lynn Petronella

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