Today I am going to share with you one of my many Wellness Tools. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term Wellness Tools, I will explain. The life altering evidence based practice that PEERS was founded on in 2001, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, aka WRAP, has as a pre-component to actually beginning writing the plan; a helpful addition called the Wellness Toolbox. Wellness Tools are the things you do to keep yourself well, and the things you do to help yourself feel better when you don’t feel well. For me, writing poetry is one of those things. I find it liberating, invigorating, inspiring and cathartic. I wrote this poem over twenty years ago and entered it in a national poetry contest. Now I share it with you. Peace & Blessings. — Kozi.
THE KEY
Tomorrow isn’t promised
And today is almost done
So as you go on living
Why not try to have some fun
Just take a look around you
At the things you never see
And realize that all things exist
If not for you, for me
The birds that fly in the skies above
Are evidence of the power of god’s love
To be able to hear their melodies so sweet
Should make one happy just to witness such a treat
Flowers that bloom with picturesque beauty
Remind one that Mother Nature is on duty
Grass so green, skies so blue
Winds that blow for me and you
So see the mountains, see the trees
Watch them bending in the breeze
Tides that rush upon our shores
Ceasing never evermore
And when you meet your fellow man
Try not to judge this person
For any time that you have doubt
Misunderstanding will only worsen
Just keep in mind that they are human
Just like you are
Search to find the good in them
And surely you’ll go far
For to accept a stranger
And not look down on them
Will help one understand oneself
And what goes on within
So take a look around you
At the things you never see
You’ll never know what lies beyond
The doors without the key
