Positive Reinforcement

Let no man tear asunder you and your dreaming
Hold onto your joy with the utmost determination
For you are the creator of the tool,
And if you are living you can use it,
Though the forces of nature and of man will make to grip it with sharp steely fingers,
And they will grasp and pull,
And mutilate the hopes of retaining or recovering,
Should they take it,
But they cannot take it away,
Look inward, and find that you can bring it without,
When you are whole,
And if in some way you find the hopelessness always on you,
As some may have felt in days gone by,
Or still today in places about this big blue earth,
Rest it close behind somewhere behind thine eye,
So that when you eternally sleep it'll be just there,
On your eye lids etched in light,
Project from your inner eye, from your inner most soul,
And breathe easy, and then breathe no more.
For the rest of us, you do not suffer without end,
Stop the bickering and the crying,
For you are alive, and you are functional in this mass of snow,
You can defrost yourself from the ice,
And you can smile through the chill.