Tag: emotions

Then and Now

You have enjoyed your years so far
and sit in quiet reflection
but changes happening to your mind
promotes panic for resurrection.

You want to tie your shoes and wash the car
run up the stairs and then
without thought carry a pile of stuff
and run down those stairs again.

Viewing other towns and countries
on TV within your home
gives a yearning to revisit places
you were once so free to roam.

Now all the fuss at airports and the long
trek to the plane
precludes a once world traveller
from ever going abroad again.

Pathos and unfairness brings on tears
you try to hard to hide
confused emotions spar with anger
and you suppress the pain inside.

There was a day when a beer fixed it all
and conscience was something rare
when all that mattered were results 
and thoughts of others weren't there.

But treat yourself kindly old man
you are entirely free to choose
to forgive the way you lived before 
and stop hitting on the bruise.

Milestones

A birth under bright lights
with unsteady steps to come.
Large new eyes view new sights
while safely held by mum.

A deep breath - and into school
an old hand by the end of the day.
You pay attention or play the fool
make friends and you are on the way.

A first kiss that glows in your soul
with troubled emotions burning.
Lifelong loving is now your goal
and marriage stems the yearning.

Then come child and maybe child
and you find a different sort of love.
The point of being now reconciled
and possibly there is a God above.

Now, your lover and brood have gone,
alone, you brace your mind
to where you were heading all along
and when there, what you will find.

At each step in life we must be willing
to learn what to take, leave, or share.
Probably on balance life's been fulfilling
and the journey worth the fare?

December 2004