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WHAT MAKES A LIFE WORTH LIVING?
Life is flow, an endless journey
For much we are
alone
Close at times to other souls
Yet few
connections known
Living on, as yet unfinished
A puzzle,
lacking piece
A heart filled up with things to share
Search for
ears, release
By every other we come near to
We are
affected, altered
At times we think life smiles upon us
At times best
efforts faltered
Yearn at length to know another
Be one, within
us deep
Accomplished not, in silence passing
Our soul is
left to weep
Cry out in darkness, to the void
“Reach out and
touch me, know”
Feel my essence merge with yours
Something new
in us will grow
We are blind and deaf, alone
Life is, what
we imagine
Souls that touch bring sight and sound
Knowledge of
another, fashion
Search we must, grope about
Pray for
contact real
Escape the solitude of one
Touch another,
…completed feel
Gentle breezes rustle flowers
Softly sway
them as they blow
Life is moving slowly past us
In an
inexorable flow
I gaze from out my window, watching
Life as it does
go
Little movements show the changes
Life is making
slow
Every instant is a new world
An
imperceptible shift
If we don’t savor each in turn
We lose its
memory, to sift
Miracles of life occur,
Before our very eyes
A flower blooms, a bird is born
Each new day
the sun does rise
Light is shimmering on the water
An enchanting
sight
Each reflection here but once
Then is lost in
flight
Every moment something new
Comes into our
lives
The peace and quiet of the day
Myriad miracles
belies
Yesterday has come and gone
A thousand
fragments flown
Untold opportunities
Before our eyes
were shown
Give thanks for each and every day
You live and
breathe and play
You are reborn a million times
The same you
cannot stay
With every instant you live again
New chance to
get it right
No limit to the goals you set
Or your
achievements height
The future is within your mind
It comes not
from without
With endless opportunities
Your dream is
possible… no doubt
When I am down and pessimistic
When all seems
gray and dark
I read again my written words
On a journey I
embark
I try to hear and understand
As if it’s new
to me
It’s trusted friend with whom I visit
For counsel is
my plea
I know that in myself I’ll find
The things I
need for me
Believing in one’s self is chore
But needed, to
be free
I can’t believe I wrote a book
Would someone
pay to take a look?
Inside the cover is my soul
To touch
another is my goal
I share, I give, express emote
Sometimes it
sticks inside my throat
But better out than in I say
My freedom is
preserved this way.
What makes a life worth living?
What brings a
lasting peace?
How to achieve the durable,
Anxiety give
release
How to keep life interesting
Hold attention
every day
How to revisit familiar
Each time a
different way
How to find new meaning
New perspective
in the old
How to find excitement
As our days we
do unfold
How to remain in awe of all
We’ve seen and
known before
How to see it new again
A thousand
times and more
Grow we must within ourselves
Be more in
every way
Perception will be altered by
Our newness
every day
When mortality comes a-calling with
Death the
seeming prize
When time has been destroyed and
The future in
pieces lies
When suddenly the plans you’ve made
Are crushed by
illness heavy
Or an accident brings your end in sight
Before you think you’re ready
You change your goals, search for meaning
Reorder, prioritize
Compress the years to minutes, see
Yourself with
honest eyes
Search for truth, discern your needs
Distill to just
a few
Use the time remaining, rediscover
The real you
Say the things you feared to say
Pursue the
needs important
Do nothing for appearance sake
Discard those
things discordant
Follow pure your hearts’ desire
Do the things
you need to do
Into focus, now a question
Near extinction
brought to you
Why waste a life ignoring what
Your heart’s been telling you?
Why wait to see life ending,
To thine own self be true?
Drive is humming, clock is ticking
Rain is
dropping all around
Turn the lights out, look beyond it
Darkness
quietly surrounds
Hear the night sounds, living breathing
Dressed in
colors without light
Rain is washing clean the earth’s face
Yields a
perfume to delight
Computers do such wondrous things
A miracle in
our hands?
The simple act of raindrops falling
Tells us clear who’s
in command
Gaze upon the earth in wonder
Creation we
can’t understand
Sum mans progress from beginning
Matters not
without God’s hand
Greens to yellow, then to rust
Reds to brown, ever thus
Beauteous fall, comes and goes
Ever changing, living, flows
Life will cycle, once again
All is new, yet an old friend
Natures way, new from old
Always fresh, renewed, retold
Stunning beauty, each new turn
Nature’s lesson, we should learn
Start each day with brand new eyes
Know that wonders, will arise
Yesterday is gone and done
Prelude to, today’s short run
Each new day is life rebuilt
Another chance, live to the hilt
What was, new ways will reassemble
Bring new joys, to make you tremble
Old was friend… security
Now a longed for memory
See each day, your world reborn
See the rose, beyond the thorn
EACH DAY
In to each day pour yourself
It is your life
reborn
A new beginning, sweet and clean
A fresh and
fragrant morn
Possibilities endless loom
Beyond what eyes
can see
Keep your mind and heart doors open
To see that
dreams can be
Each of us, we are alone
Forever trapped
within
To go beyond our boundary is
The goal we
wish to win
To know, for sure, that others hear
Our words the way
they’re meant
Or feel inside what we have felt
Intense,
profound, nascent
Alone, five senses cannot serve,
Fulfill our
deep desires
The truth we seek remains unseen
Against us life
conspires
Beneath the surface knowledge comes
From faith and something
else
Communication from within
Understanding
in us wells
Seeing comes from knowing that
There’s
something to be seen
Knowing is from going places
Before we’ve
never been
To get without, escape our sphere
Make contact,
know the truth
We must travel deep inside
Journey past
our youth
Disregard old rules and givens
Reach out and
feel, take in,
The answers will not come in words
Arrive from
deep within
The knowing without knowing why
Or how the
knowing came
Transforms us now and ever more
No longer be
the same
Paradigm shift, align
New vision
comes to be
But eyes have not contributed
To what we now
can see
Every cell within our being
Imbued with
knowledge new
Language is superfluous
The truth is
ours to view
Now we’ll be, alone no more
Nor ever can we
be
We’ve journeyed out by going in
The knowledge
made us free
Reach beyond the stars at night
Follow your
hearts flight
Find what is beyond your sight
Past the
darkness in the light
Send your self beyond the veil
Cosmic winds
will fill your sail
All who live will hear you wail
When you have
found your holy grail
On this land I’ve come to live
Plant my soul
to stay
Need to grow new roots to hold
Me firmly, come
what may
Each tree and rock, each slope and hill
I survey with
an eye
Toward planting life that feels at home
The land and
me, to tie
More than bulbs, into the ground
I put this very
day
We’ll both be growing in the spring
From the bed I
make, to lay
Home… the place where I began
The place from which I ran
The place I long to be
The place that lives in me
Home… a feeling not a space
A love of self with grace
A security of kind
A blissful peace of mind
Home… Freedom to be me
Trust in what will be
Know I am the key
No apology
Give thanks each day for what you’ve got
Don’t grouse
about the things you’ve not
See your gifts anew each morn
Don’t let your
luck be lightly worn
Focus on the little things
Together give
your spirits wing
Don’t for granted take your life
Or understate a
lack of strife
But glory in the things you can
Comparing not
another man’s
See the sun rising warm
Paint a
landscape far from norm
Or watch the clouds invent a scene
As flowers
toward the sun do lean
Feel the miracle of loving hands
As a gift and
not demands
Know each day that “not alone”
Is prayers
answered, stepping stone
To being more than you have been
Out of self,
new vision win
Find the friend inside your soul
Give to others out of your whole
Home, a word that conjures much
Pictures,
soundbytes, thoughts and such
Supports a soul, acts a crutch
A place within,
we all do clutch
More than origin of birth
Sense of many’s
pride and worth
More than places on this earth
Of which, for sure,
there is no dearth
But continuity of soul
Distance
traveled to be whole
Sense of who we are, and goal
A place of
peace, we all extol
Life is long, a journey far
From birth to
where it ends
At times it seems I cannot see
What was, so
wounds can mend
Guideposts unfamiliar give
No help to
place me now
Going back is not to be
Nor would I, I
avow
And yet there is a void, a place
I cannot find
within
The essence of the one I am
The part of me
that’s kin
Like comets in the firmament
Others on me
pull
Forces I cannot control
My life it
seems do rule
Answers that I cannot find
To life’s
complexity
Rob me of the confidence
And faith in
what will be
I am a ship afloat at sea
My compass is
in me
This is a time to learn and grow
If ever I’d be
free
Here today, gone tomorrow
Birth is joy,
death is sorrow
Life, a mere instant running
Leave a mark,
anonymity coming
Nothing left in aftermath
Unless you take
the higher path
Touch another soul today
Fear not being
in the fray
Leave it better in your wake
Then when you
came, for other’s sake
Make a difference as you pass
Aspire to
greatness, leave with class
Each day life moves it’s twisted way
What is next it
doesn’t say
We walk a path untrod before
Anxious to
know, what is in store
We pause a while here and there
Drink of life,
subdue our fear
Make mistakes, learn ourselves
Find our
essence, into it delve
Build the person, lives today
Hear the inner
voice,… obey
Find a partner on similar road
For the future,
it well will bode
There are those like you and I
Feelings
hidden, though we try
Who view the world from outside in
Or cry in
silence from within
Love has not forsaken us
But placed high
purpose in our trust
As we seek to understand
The wondrous
power at our command
Try we may to imitate
Persona in our
minds create
Or social lives invigorate
It will prove
to be mistake
We must be ourselves at best
Proud of who we
are at rest
Subject our lives to just one test
Love of life
our days invest
At a time we least expect
A question
comes that’s most direct
A stranger asks, our views detect
Reasons we must
introspect
Brings to us the wider view
A new horizon
to construe
Birth of feelings seem brand new
Perplex,
confuse, confound, imbue
Complicate, disturb, unearth
The person who
we were at birth
Reborn anew, aware of worth
We are buoyed
by newfound mirth
Perspective altered changes us
Gives us strength
to carry trust
Become safe harbor, for whom we must
Gives us love,
for which we lust
Planets coming into line
The future is
foretold
2000 years have come and gone
Will next the
earth grow cold?
Could we in all our haste have done,
What enemies
never could?
Created in our own advance
Our end,
misunderstood
Or have we fooled ourselves the most
By seeing in
our path
More than is ordained to us
Attracting His
great wrath
The time is near for us to know
If we our souls
have sold
Is this the end of all we know?
Or the future
coming bold?
Perhaps it’s both we will be dealt
An end and then
beginning
The tale our children will retell
Right now
events are spinning
In every birth there is a death
Old environs
cease
Perhaps for us the future’s cost
Is our old
world, deceased
What is it about the rain?
Draws me in,
eases pain
Soothes my anger, calms my heart
Makes of me,
natures part
Why does time, stop or slow?
Impeded by the
torrents flow
And answers spring from out the mist
I am unable to
resist
It is as if He speaks to me
In metaphors of
grass and tree
Blurs my world so I can see
More clearly
what my path should be
The rain prevents my seeing out
Helps me look
within
To that place, the core of me
To know myself
again
The purest blue I’ve ever seen
Lies just above the clouds
Separates me from the rest
More than earth
it shrouds
If perchance a space appears
In the clouds
below
The beauty that is evident
Encourages
thought to flow
A quiet timeless movement in
A space not
here or there
Up closer to my maker I
Find
perspective in the air
I cannot comprehend the reason
I am affected
thus
But times like these bring me peace
Restore my
sense of us.