Just a passing ship
But you drew my attention
A lush view of life
Changing perspectives
Tag: destiny
The route of life
The choices we make
Stem from who we really are
Destined to be
Life is what you make it
The wheel of life turns
Despite the complexity
It comes back to you
Collision
Our souls collided
But it was no accident
We were meant to be…
Torch and a Spear
We were like two ships
Passing through the night
My perfume in the breeze
Yours, with smoke-filled trees
You made me pause
For a moment–
Inhale memories long forgotten,
Though occasional visitors
But I’ve tasted and drunk
Enough damp midnight air
Not to want to go back there.
Walk with me for awhile
Come and gaze through my window
Take a look at your possibility
To share the fragrance with me
And leave that stale air behind
The shore is not too far
If you take the dive with me
I have a torch, you have a spear
Together– we have nothing to fear!
I wonder
As I roll back the years
Turn back the clock
Wipe away my tears of regret
I wonder
Were you ever really happy?
I’ve forgotten your smile
Something rare, seen once in a while
I wonder
What were you thinking
With the voices inside your head
That played havoc with your moods?
I wonder
Do you have the answers
To all the things that I seek?
Is it your voice, that calls me in my sleep?
I wonder
Was it written in the stars?
For your life to end that way
Never saying goodbye on that solitary day
I wonder
When I look up at the stars
Was it you who just winked at me
Reassuring me with your glimmering light?
I wonder
Will you blow out a candle
On this day when your life began
When you received your deck of cards?
I wonder
Was it you who held my hand
All those times when I felt so forlorn?
Is it you who leaves gifts for me everyday?
Perhaps I shouldn’t wonder – I already know.
When I gaze into the mirror and see you looking back at me.
What ifs
These questions that gnaw at me,
nibbling at the joy that life brings,
feeding me with cheesy excuses,
muddling doubts, impotent fears,
stealing glitter off golden moments,
when I should have been totally here,
not wondering on my own out there–
an exile behind my own prison walls.
What if this is what was meant for me
all along, complete with every crack,
every blemish that prizes the antique,
aspired by most but afforded to a few.
What if I had made an irrevocable error–
taking the bus and not boarding the train,
believing that life had to ride the highway
instead of pausing at each station en route?
What if there were no what ifs to choose–
where automation usurped my controls,
clipped my wings so that I could not fly?
Would I be the me that has reason to be?
What if I told you that this is exactly it?
I’m just where I need to be, here with you?
It’s in the the stars my love, in the stars!
Thank you to Marie from ComeFlywithme for the prompt to write this poem
Life’s garden
Even as he turned the soil, unearthed the weeds,
He knew that he would have to plant new seeds.
For what is it to grow a garden and not linger,
To stop and revere,the art of your green finger?
What pleasure there is in being freedom’s child
Sprouting buds and leaves, trendrils twirling wild.
There is also great merit in the design and pruning,
For complementing–colour, shape and fine–tuning
At the end of the day, we’ll sit back and admire
The achievements of hopes to which we aspire.
No longer prisoners of our own fault and device,
Co-creators, not victims of the throw of the dice.
No root stands firm without tender loving care,
Nutrients and water, sunshine and refreshing air.
Even when we think that chance is to blame
We must each move towards our own end-game.
Feel the ocean within
Do you sit and wonder
if it’s true
that you are
who you say you are-
that you are not lost
in the jungle of your mind
or trapped in a fate
you’d soon renounce?
Do you sit and wonder
at the miracles
that cross your path-
Everyday
sometimes unnoticed-
until the effects of ether
have long since passed
and the dream is reality?
Do you walk and wander
up mountain peaks
down hidden trails-
hear the trickle of water
as it flows over rocks
and fallen branches-
that life is just that way
streaming everyday…
Until – you feel the ocean within you.
Soul cleansing
Within your swirling splashes,
Your curling whipping lashes,
Your tilting, turning crashes,
I found a riotous serenity.
As you spiraled,sprayed and spun,
Smoldering from a hidden sun,
Whirlpool of clamorous upheaval,
Sparked my misplaced sanity’s retrieval.
Behind these sturdy rocks,
I cleared my mental blocks.
Yet your waters rose again
And swept my debris in the drain.
My mind is now clear and free.
My heart was given a brand new key.
My soul once again restored to me.
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