Time

From the bottom of my heart - for old and new, in celebration and in silence.

With love:

I wish you not all kinds of gifts I wish for you what most can't lift. I wish for you to laugh and be merry. And if you use it well, something good it will carry.

I wish for you time for your thinking and doing, Not only for yourself but for you to be giving. I wish for you time, not to run and not be present. But time for being at peace and to be content.

I wish you time - not just to waste. I wish, you may have some that you can embrace. As time to be wowed and time to trust. Instead of time to check all things you must.

I wish you time to reach for the stars. And time to grow, and heal the scars. I wish you time for renewed hope and to love. There's no point in putting this time off.

I wish you time to find yourself within. To consider every day, every hour as your fortune. I wish you time, to forget and forgive. My wish for you: time to have to live!

(Translation: Hannah Stanton, freely after Elli Michler)