Around Every Corner

By Ray Smallshaw

My death is not something I am afraid of,
What scares me is what it will offer me after it,

You see in my lifetime its joy has been that this life has had something new and wonderful for me around every corner,

And without that I don't want to die, though I figured that it must hold as much if not more joy than I have had here,

As somewhere on the other side is all those people who assisted in bring me that joy perhaps waiting to give me another dose of it.

So until I am called I will wallow in the joy that this life gives me everyday and around every corner.