YOU NEED TO KNOW

AS A MAN SOWETH

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

We must not hope to be mowers,

And to gather the ripe gold ears,

Unless we have first been sowers,

And watered the furrows with tears.

 

It is not just as we take it,

This mystical world of ours,

Life’s field will yield as we make it,

A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

YOU ARE WORTHY

Undying Poems: Dr. Romulo A. Ramirez

 

Do not undermine your worth

By comparing yourself to others

It is because you are different

And each of us is special…

 

Do not set your goals

By what other people deem important

Only You know

What is best for you…

 

Do not take for granted

The things closest to your heart

Cling to them as you would your life

For without them, life is meaningless.

 

Do not give up

When you still have something to give

Nothing is really over

Until the moment you stop trying.

 

Do not be afraid to encounter risks

It is by taking chances

That we learn how to be brave.

 

Do not shut love out of your life

By saying it is impossible to find

The quickest way to receive love is to give love

The fastest way to lose love is hold it too tightly

In addition, the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

 

Do not dismiss your dreams

To be without dreams

Is to be without hope

To be with out hope

Is to be without purpose.

 

Do not run through life so fast

That you forget

Not only where you have been

But also where you are going…

 

Life is not a race

But a journey to be savored

Each step of the way.

By living your life one day at a time,

You live all the days of your life.

 

 

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ENDURING THE STORMS OF LIFE

WHAT I LIVE FOR

George Linnaeus Banks

 

I live for those who love me,

Whose hearts are kind and true,

For the Heaven that smiles above me,

And awaits my spirit too;

For all human ties that bind me,

For the task by God assigned me,

And the good that I can do.

 

I live to learn their story.

Who suffered for my sake;

To emulate their glory,

And follow in their wake;

Bards, patriot, martyrs, sages,

The heroic of all ages;

Whose deeds crowd History’s pages,

And Time’s great volume make.

 

I live to hold communion,

With all that is divine,

To feel there is a union,

Twixt Nature’s heart and mine,

To profit by affliction

Grow wiser from conviction,

And fulfill God’s grand design.

 

I live to hail that season,

By gifted ones foretold,

When men shall live by reason,

And not alone by gold,

When man to man united,

And every wrong thing righted,

The whole world shall be lighted,

As Eden of the old.

 

I live for those who love me,

For those who know me true,

For the Heaven that smiles above me,

And awaits my spirit too;

For the cause that lacks assistance,

For the wrong that needs resistance,

For the future in the distance,

And the good that I can do.

TO THE QUITTER

Undying Poems: Dr. Romulo A. Ramirez

 

The world won’t care if you quit;

And the world won’t whine if you fall;

The busy world won’t notice it;

No matter how loudly you wail.

 

Nobody will worry that you

Have relinquished the fight and gone down;

For it is only the things that you do

That are worth while and get you renown.

 

The quitters are quickly forgotten;

Of them the world spends little time;

And a few ever care that you’ve not;

The courage or patience to climb.

 

So give up and quit in despair;

And take your place back on the shelf;

But don’t think the world’s going to care;

You are injuring only yourself.

TRUE WORTH IS IN BEING

Undying Poems: Dr. Romulo A. Ramirez

 

We get back our mete as we measure;

We can not do wrong and feel right;

Or can we give pain and gain pleasure;

For justice avenges each slight.

 

The air for the wing of the sparrow;

The bush for the robin and wren,

But always the path that is narrow;

And straight for the children of men.

 

We can not make bargains for blisses;

Nor catch them like fishes in nets;

And sometimes the thing our life misses;

Helps more that the thing it gets.

 

For good lies not in pursuin;

Nor gaining of great nor small;

Bur just in the doing and doing;

As we would be done by, is all.

START OVER

Undying Poems: Dr. Romulo A. Ramirez

 

When you trusted God and walked His way;

When you’ve felt His hand lead you day and day;

But your steps now take you another way…

Start over.

 

When you’ve made your plans and they’ve gone awry;

When you’ve tried your best and there’s no more try;

When you’ve failed yourself and you don’t know why;

Start over.

 

When you’ve told your friends what you plan to do;

When you’ve trusted them and they didn’t come through;

And you’re all alone and it’s up to you;

Start over.

 

When you’ve failed your kids and they’re grown and gone;

When you’ve done your best but it has turned out wrong;

And now your grandchildren come along;

Start over.

 

When you’ve prayed to God so you’ll know His will;

When you prayed and prayed and don’t know still;

When you want to stop cause you’ve had your fill;

Start over.

 

When you think you’re finished and want to quit;

When you’re bottomed out in life’s deepest pit;

When you’ve tried and tried to get out of it..;

Start over.

 

When the years has been long and successes few;

When December comes and you’re feeling blue;

God gives January just for you;

Start over.

 

Starting over means “Victories Won”

Starting over means “A Race Well Run”

Starting over means “God’s Will Done”

START OVER!!!

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IN ANGER

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When I have lost my temper

I have lost my reason too.

I’m never proud of anything

Which angrily I do.

 

When I have walked in anger

And my cheeks are flaming red

U have always uttered something

That I wished I hadn’t said.

 

In anger I have never done.

A kindly deed, or wise,

But many things for which I know

I should apologize

 

In looking back across my life

And all I’ve lost or made

I can’t recall a single time

When fury ever paid.

HEALED AND WHOLE

Undying Poems: Dr. Romulo A. Ramirez

 

One day I dug a little hole

And put my hurt inside

I thought that I could just forget

I’d put it there to hide.

 

But that little hurt began to grow

I covered it everyday

I couldn’t leave it and go on

It seems the price I had to pay.

 

My joy was gone, my heart was sad

Pain was all I knew.

My wounded soul envelope me

Loving seems so hard to do.

 

One day, while standing by my hole

I cried to God above

And said, “If you are really there,

They say, You are a God of Love?”

 

And just like that, He was right there

And just put His arms around me

He wiped my tears, His hurting child

There was no safer place to be.

 

I told him all about my hurt

I opened up my heart

He listened to each and every word

To every sordid part.

 

I dug down deep and got my hurt

I brushed the dirt away

And place it in the Master’s hand

And healing came that day.

 

He took the blackness of my soul

And set my spirit free!

Something beautiful began to grow

Where the hurt used to be.

 

And when I look at what has grown

Out of my tears and pain

I remember each day to give my hurts to him

And never bury them again.

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ENDURING THE STORMS OF LIFE

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Sometimes it’s hard to take

The bitter with the sweet.

To face the raging storms with life

And not give up in defeat.

 

Sometimes we rely on worldly things

To help us reach our goals

We build our hopes upon the sand

And the storms beat on our souls.

 

But if we put our trust in God,

We’re are building on His rock

And all the storms of life can not harm

Anyone on His flock.

 

We still endure the storms of life

With faith and trust in His love

For he will set His lighthouse

To guide us from above.

 

Then whatever challenges we face

Whatever be our plight

He will guide us safely home

If we only follow in His light.

DON’T EVER STOP DREAMING YOUR DREAMS

Undying Poems: Dr. Romulo A. Ramirez

 

Don’t ever be reluctant

To show your feelings

When you’re happy

Give in to it.

When you are not, live with it.

 

Don’t ever be afraid

To try to make things better.

You might be surprise at the result.

 

Don’t ever take the weight

Of the world on your shoulders.

Don’t ever feel threatened by the future;

Take life one day at a time.

 

Don’t ever feel guilty about the past;

What’s done is sone.

Learn from mistakes you might have made.

 

Don’t ever feel that you are alone.

There is always somebody there

For you to reach out to.

 

Don’t ever forget that you can achieve

So many of the things you can imagine,

It’s not as hard as it seems.

 

Don’t ever stop loving,

Don’t ever stop believing,

Don’t ever stop dreaming your dreams.