One Year to Live

What would you try to accomplish if you know you only had one year to live? As I lay in my hospital bed, getting ready to pass over, I look over the past year and feel so proud of myself and what I've accomplished. Over my last 12 months, I have travelled to my dream place which is Italy.  I went there for two weeks, and I had the time of my life. After I came back home, I decided to volunteer for a variety of charities. While doing all of this, I was still attending school, there was only so much time to spend with my friends. I started to think how my life was going to shortly come to an end, and I started to get very angry. I decided to live my life to the fullest, considering I was going to die in a few months anyway, I started to get reckless. I stopped volunteering, and stopped going to school. I thought it was a great idea to party every night, and started getting into some drugs. I only had 6 more months to live. I started to get very weak, and then I felt very depressed. I came to the conclusion what I was doing was very wrong, and I was looking at my situation at the wrong angle. I had 5 months to live, and I was being so incredibly selfish. I couldn't change my past, but I thought to myself that I can change and make my last few months count. I was too weak to leave my house everyday, so instead of volunteering again, I donated most of my stuff to the charities. The last two months of my life, I spent with my friends and family in the hospital. I decided life may be short, but don't be selfish, and think of your family and friends, not just yourself. Make your life worth while, and make sure you are remembered for the good things you have done, and the way you have made a positive alter on people's lives.

Song or poem?

I ain’t got no car
And I've got one pair of jeans
They’ve been stretched too far
And now they’re weak at the seams
I can’t say what’s next
And I got nothin' up my sleeve
But I don’t lose my head
Cause it ain’t really up to me
And I’m doing just fine
I’m always landing on my feet
In the nic of time
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain’t gonna stress
Cause the worst ain’t happened yet
Somethings watching over me
Like Sweet Serendipity
Sweet Serendipity

I don’t ask for a lot
No nothing more than I need
Because I love what I got
Don’t need to play the lottery
I just want to be strong
At the end of the road
I don’t want to hold on
I want the strength to let go

And I’m doing just fine
I’m always landing on my feet
In the nic of time
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain’t gonna stress
Cause the worst ain’t happened yet
Somethings watching over me
Like Sweet Serendipity

And what will be will be
In the nic of time
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain't gonna stress
Cause the worst ain’t happened yet

Somethings watching over me
Like Sweet Serendipity
Sweet Serendipity
Like Sweet Serendipity

Don’t look fate can only find you
You can’t choose for something to surprise you
Set sail without a destination
Just see where the wind will take you
You never know when you're gonna fall
But I'm not worried
No I'm not worried

And I’m doing just fine
I’m always landing on my feet
In the nic of time
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain’t gonna stress
Cause the worst ain’t happened yet
Somethings watching over me

And I’m doing just fine
I’m always landing on my feet
In the nic of time
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain’t gonna stress
Cause the worst ain’t happened yet
Somethings watching over me
Like Sweet Serendipity
Sweet Serendipity
Sweet Serendipity

Don’t look fate can only find you
You can’t choose for something to surprise you
Set sail without a destination

Sweet, sweet
Sweet, sweet
Sweet Serendipity
Sweet, sweet
Sweet, sweet
Sweet Serendipity
I don't know
Sweet Serendipity

Some people believe that any person that can put rhymes together and make a beat to it, is a poet. This is defiantly not the case. "Sweet serendipity" sung by Lee Dewyze possesses many poetic devices, which makes everyone ask themselves, "Is this a song or a poem?" When it really comes down to it, it's both. A song is paragraphs of words with meaning put to a beat and sung by a person, a poem is paragraphs with words but spoken by a person with no beat. When Dewyze sings, "I’m doing just fine, I’m always landing on my feet." is a metaphor for when bad times are present, he always comes out of it okay, and he just comes out of it stronger. In the song, there is one part of it that possesses a large amount of alliteration, "Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet serendipity, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet serendipity." The theme of this song is, even when things are tough everything will be okay in the end, and live life to the fullest. "Sweet serendipity" represents a type of god, or something spiritual watching after him.