I WISH YOU TIME

“I don't wish you all sorts of gifts.

I just wish you, what most people don't have:

I wish you the time to be happy and to laugh

and if you use it, you can make something out of it.

I wish you the time for your doings and thinking,

not only for yourself, but also to give away.

I wish you the time - not to hastle and run,

but the time to know how to be contented.

I wish you the time - not to pass just like that.

I wish that some of it may be left for you

as a time to marvel and (as a time) to trust,

instead of just looking at the time on your watch.

I wish you the time to reach for the stars,

and the time to grow, that means to mature.

I wish you the time to hope anew and to love.

There is no sense in putting this time off.

I wish you the time to find yourself,

to see the happiness in each day and each hour.

I wish you the time also to forgive.

I wish you: the time to live.”

Elli Michler  (1921-2014) wrote this beautiful poem in the year 1987.