This Poem to My Ben and Equally to all Mother's sons

Choose joy.
Life will make sure it is balanced
by the necessary pain
to bring your happiness to clear focus.

If you are driven,
let it be by love
but passion spent, let love abide
a warm and peaceful rain to wash your soul.

Step back
from those who would
cage and contain you
even if I am the guilty one.

Draw stregnth from solitude
but remember even solitude
may cling too tightly.