If This Were a Movie

If this were a movie
it would start with a scene
of people bouncing on a trampoline
Some going up
and some going down
here and there all over town

We see them morning noon and night
doing wrong and doing right
Causing pleasure, causing pain
time and time and time again

Some will learn they hold the key
to life’s enduring mystery
But others squander strength and youth
and never grasp the simple truth

This film, you see, is made to show
what the Beatles told us long ago
That in the end the love we take
is equal to the love we make