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195. Laughter

Where does laughter truly come
From birth or from our senses?
Was it created to make us smile
Or to help us overcome pretenses?

Were jokes created sometime after
To insure that laughter would have a home?
Or were jokes really created first
Making sure smiles weren’t left alone?

Did our giggles branch from laughs
Second cousins to chuckles and snorts
Or did God create them all the same
Giving birth to happiness and its cohorts?

Regardless of when they first appeared
A supreme lesson should we learn
Laughter is but a message of God’s love
Bringing joy from head to toe


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