Brighten The Corner Where You Are

We cannot all be famous or listed in Who’s Who

But every person great or small has important work to do,

For seldom do we realise the importance of small deeds

Or to what degree of greatness unnoticed kindness leads,

For it’s not the big celebrity in a world of fame and praise

But it’d doing unpretentiously in undistinguished ways

The work that God assigned to us, unimportant as it seems,

That makes our task outstanding and bring reality to dreams –

So do not sit and idly wish for wider, new dimensions

Where you can put in practice your many ‘Good Intentions’ –

But at the spot God placed you begin at once to do

Little things to brighten up the lives surrounding you,

For if everybody brightened up the spot on which they are standing

By being more considerate and a little less demanding

This dark old world would very soon eclipse the ‘Evening Star’

If everybody brightened up the corner where they are.