How Will You Spend Your Life?

How will you spend your life?

Will you make the most of it?

Or will you be pessimistic?

How will you spend your life?

In a large mansion?

Or in a log cabin, quaint and rustic?

How will you spend your life?

As a null ne'er-do-well?

Or as a model to society?

How will you spend your life?

As a stingy miser?

Or will you give to charity?

How will you spend your life?

Will you think recklessly?

Or will your thoughts have gravity?

How will you spend your life?

With carelessness and negligence?

Or with patience and solemnity?

How will you spend your life?

Buried in your sorrows?

Or will you welcome the new day?

How will you spend your life?

Mourning the loss of a loved one?

Or glad, for to a better place they are on their way?

How will you spend your life?

Seeking the love of another?

Or dreaming of what cannot be?

How will you spend your life?

Like every day is your last?

Or as though what is past is past?

How did you spend your life?

You only have one

And what's done is done.

You only had one life

To live

To love

Did it count?