life is sweet

when the air is crisp and leaves turn gold
and you’ve got the legs and luxury of going outdoors
to enjoy it
you think for a moment that life is sweet

when you’ve got your cake and cream soda and your choices
of comings, goings and in-betweens too
and you know you can complain out loud
then life seems sweet

when favor is your friend and your friends and family
like to do you favors
and the only ones to hate you really just hate people like you
you ought to know that life is sweet

when you have stress but you’ve never really been stressed
and you look in the paper and see some who have
and think: that will never be me
you say out loud ‘life is sweet’

but when you feel the heartbreak of the tens
of thousands who don’t have the loves or a life
resembling yours
you truly know that life is sweet