Dare to Be Different

Dare to Be Different

While riding along I saw a palm tree

In the midst of a cluster of so many species;

It struck me as odd that a tree so different

Dared to stand taller with so little effort

And right then and there I learned a great lesson,

It is Ok to be different, an odd sort of person!

So I looked at my life with its myriad passions

And made it all right to follow the fashions

I’ve loved all my life but have often wondered,

If others viewed me as odd, so I have pondered.

I’ve decided God made me this way for a purpose

And it’s my life to live and I’m doing it right, I suppose?

It hasn’t been easy being so oddball and scattered

But I’ve done many things that often have mattered.

I have tried to be fair and consider all others

And shared what I’ve had without many bothers.

As I continue onward on this wonderful path

I have tried not to garner too much of God’s wrath.

So I dared to be different and a bit unconventional

But have tried not to cause hurt, at least not intentional…

And I have studied and practiced and tried many pathways;

I have served and I’ve sewed and I have painted and always

Given my best to serve God, my Master, and care for the ones

He gives me to serve, and tried through it all to have lots of fun!

                                                                                                                                                ©Zelda Seymour-Kimm, 2012