Look Up!

When you’re feeling brown

Look up, not down

Don’t fret or frown

Don’t dig a hole

Don’t be a mole

There’s nothing much that’s up

When you are underground

Instead, the thing I’ve found

Is that if I build a mound

I’m already much more such more up

Than ever I was down

 

And if you’re feeling sad

It’s not so bad

So don’t get mad

Rather think of all the good things

Like chocolate books and magic rings

And flying without feathered wings

Or think of something really fun

Like playing in the sparkly sun

And belly laughing with someone

Or anything makes you glad

Just not what makes you sad

 

And if you’re feeling low

Don’t stop, just go

Go fast, not slow

Go with the flow

Or plant a seed of happy thoughts

And watch it sprout and grow

Then climb your wavy happy tree

And from the top you’ll see, you’ll see

You’ll almost touch the sky

And when you are so high, you’ll know

That you’re no longer low

 

So when your sky is cloudy

Be bright, not dowdy

In fact be downright rowdy

Jump and dance and scream and shout

Don’t keep it in, just let it out

And if you’re loud and clear

The sun might even hear

And come out from its hiding place

And show its warm bright shining face

And say to you a sunny “Howdy …

Look up! It’s clear not cloudy”

 

Copyright 2007

 

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