We should always live each day
Like children at play
As if it were the best
Not the same as all the rest

We should be glad to be alive
Not just struggling to survive
Find in all things something funny
Not just worrying about money

There’s no time to sit and frown
You have to paint the town
And yet sometimes we forget
All the pleasures we have yet

To sample in this life
We fill our head with strife
And tell ourselves we should –
Never thinking that we could

Or could not, if we choose
There’s so little time to lose
Because suddenly without warning
You get up as every morning

But something comes along
To remind you you’ve been wrong
The problems of yesterday
Seen from today

Are no longer worth a mention
They’re not in the same dimension
I worried about our wealth
Now all I care about’s your health

A job, a car, a flat
What’s the point of all that?
My only kind of hell
Would be if you’re not well

Yet if you’re not, don’t have a care
I will always be right there
Helping you fight the fight
Loving with all my might

Together, we belong
Together, we’re so strong
The most important thing in life
Is simply being your wife!

Jo Ross – 14th February 2003