Encouragement

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When you're smiling
When you're smiling
The whole world smiles with you!

The WHOLE world???

I wonder if Mrs Yashimoto
Sitting in her 'box' apartment
In overcrowded, downtown Tokyo is smiling?

I wonder if Isabella
Six going on twenty six
Surrogate mother to four younger brothers and sisters is smiling?
In the rat ridden
Shanty shacks of Rio De Janeiro
Playground of the rich and famous!

I wonder if those sitting in Harrod's doorway
Wrapped in yesterday's news
Are smiling?

Or Frankie
The ten year old
Who lives next door with Auntie Sue
Is smiling?
After losing his mum in a drink drive ...
"I never meant to kill anyone!"
Ac-ci-dent!

Sometimes it takes a while to grow another smile
But no matter how high the troubles pile
There is always time for a little smile
It maybe just around the next corner
All we have to do is keep journeying through!


Circa 1999

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