MOMMA BEAR'S MANTRAS

Someone like you
and someone like me
once thought it cool
to be happy and free

Someone like me
and someone like you
chose to do only
what they love to do

Someone like her
and someone like him
tried to tell them
not to live on a whim

But Someone like us
never listens to those
who choose to live lives
that they never chose

I’ll never say never not ever, no never.
I’m much too clever to ever say never
Never makes nothing happen, never brings no one fun
Never is not a word, that inspires anyone.

I’ll find silver linings on every cloud,
rose colored glasses in every crowd.

Happy clams on every beach
and every star within my reach.

Four leaf clovers and wildflowers.
Pots of gold under rainbow showers.

So consider replacing your Nevers
with ‘perhaps’ or perhaps, a ‘maybe’.
Because words are really quite clever
your words have power you see?

There’s always a way,
another new day.
Until one day there is not.
So never say never,
wherever, whenever.
Because never is not what you thought.