Never Ending

A long, long time ago
When I was just a gleam in mother’s eye
You frolicked with the squirrels
A mop top boy
Surrounded by girls
Oblivious to what would be
A long awaited destiny
Appointed by some higher hand
That no one seems to 
          understand
 
As time began to be unfolded
I ran barefoot over grassy knolls
Long hair flying in the wind
A little girl
Playing Huckleberry Finn  
And you became the age of reason
With every passing season
Collecting demons for your past
In some ways you grew up 
          too fast

The future led me by the books
But your face was everywhere I looked
I didn’t know the reason why
This dreamed up man
Would always catch my eye
But our prints were left in different places
Your mark on smaller faces
And we dressed ourselves in white and black
While you wished you could take the 
          future back

Water flowed beneath the bridge
You tried to wade, you tried to swim
You rode the current of the tide
Without a sail 
A search to fill that void inside,
And I lived on without a cure
For all the troubles I endured
I multiplied while life divided
Closed my eyes, my course was set 
          lopsided 
            
One day when it was least expected,
April took a pen to write
The long awaited script, at last
Two lives 
Began to walk a woven path 
You held your breath, you saw the light
And in the days that followed night
You spoke the words that brought me tears,
I pressed them in the pages of
          the book of years


june 2010 

 



Awarded by Poetic Constellations ~ July 13, 2010 ~ Bri