We search, always seeking
Along this path before us
A lifetime, step by step
No map in our hand
Detours and byways
Rest stops are few
A lifetime, step by step
No matter our plan
Maybe one day we see
We never really left home
A lifetime, step by step
And yet here we still stand
Coming full circle.
Until my last breath
My last gasp
I will be here
Trying to explain
The simplicity
We have lost
In the mêlée
We maintain
And to say Adieu
As I go from here
I will shed no tear
As I will see you soon.
Stoic & Buddhist
They say I am an odd one
Never fitting the square hole
Dismissive, and done
They say I am disconnected
Alienated to the world
Maybe mentally affected
Yet I am only this
Seeing beyond the words
Never a detail do I miss
And I love this world
Never so connected
The foundation unfurled
Every moment
I live to the last
Never did I own it
I used to see
I used to know
I used to watch
A simple shift
From watching
To being
One step
Forward
Now I am
(Stoic)
Never seeing the loss
The saddest of all
Never to recall
The deepest cost
Left in childhood
What children know
Left as we grow
What we understood
Maybe we fall
By chance or fate
Maybe not too late
By Grace we recall
Instead of finding
Maybe turned around
Instead of life’s blinding
Maybe we are found
Stoic
Seeing something bigger
Beyond you
Is humbling
In perspective issues fall
A life so full of beauty
Calls to one and all
If we but heed the call
And I am here
Witness to creation
A world forlorn
Every sun and moon rise
A heart reborn
Stoic
