The Way We Are

We are one family,
Living on a mountain top.
Feeling rich and happy,
Though we're without much money.

We eat three square meals each day,
Under the sun, moon, and sky,
Need I exaggerate the things we have?
To realize that life should be free,
And wish to live it the way it should be,
Honestly, this is all that I really see

My parents are not yet old today,
Though they will be soon, someday.
So while there is time, I talk to them,
Rather than keep feeling hidden within.

Fatherhas always talked sensibly
Of the value of education, to my brother and me.
Which he and mother missed, unfortunately;
But they have worked hard toward their destiny.
Happy to meet life's challenges bravely.

They work together, ever
Digging plastic botttles, candy wrappers, and soiled pieces of paper
Walking for miles looking for poor man,s gold and silver
To reach and work on stiff cliffs of trash and rubbish
Til they feel numbness of both hands and feet.

The hardships they don't even fear
They just work and live
For me, the daughter called Mountain Girl
And a younger son known as Ocean Boy.

Our ambition to succeed may come
If the family works together, as one
To live peacefully in such a retreat,
Have only hopeful thoughts as we work for our keep.

Our family is blessed with happiness,
With so much love from parents who do care,
Earned as the fruit of hard work
In our home,contentment is enjoyed there.