It is what it is Despite my wishes for it, Otherwise. You are who you are Despite my expectations,

Today, I wish the pain to go, the fatigue that I fight so. This process of aging is unkind and yet, the law of nature is a fast lane of change.

In the blink of an eye It’s a different scene On the big movie screen So easy to get absorbed In the story line of time.

Pink hues from the west Filter through Snow covered boughs Leaving, The evening light

It’s a billion stars moving and co… While we sleep. It’s one miracle after another and… We do not take the leap. It’s the great heave of nature

Come with me To the mountain top, Where the crest touches The sky And the air so pure,

One lit candle burns brightly As I make a wish upon it’s Golden aura, that Humankind May learn to caress the earth As the wind does a field of flower…

Life is not fair at times... But of course things Change quickly down the line, We are born into a No guarantee world.

Red sun in the morning rolling up the side of earth. The sky turned pink, as a ball of fire showed it’s strength,

Many thoughts in the mind, Some productive, some not. They glow like fires, Created by needs and

Sitting on the lake shore, Which made my heart soar, The water rippled at times, Swirled into beautiful lines, Clouds reflected in it’s mirror,

Life is but a dream, our fantasies, spill, like liquid tears that pool and vaporize into the air.

In the bright moments My mind is a flame, Melting obstacles, Gaining gifts of wisdom. In the dark moments

Unable to be all things For all people, Perhaps at one time, I tried. Those days are

Walking on the beach of long ago, the constant roll of the gulf, it’s sound, like a lullaby.