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Saturday, January 4, 2014

A Momentary Life





Openings and closings

Beginnings and endings

In between stretches of life
some curves as sharp as a knife

Up hill, down vale, we swing along 
rhythms play, we sing many a song

bouncy or racy, steady or slow, 
some with very little rhythm at all.

Whether or not music is playfully gay
life opens and closes with each new day.

A twist to this plot is the doors that get closed,
chapters that leave us a question that’s posed.

Doors can open new landscapes to travel,
chapters leave readers with more story to unravel,

a road at it’s end offers a choice of direction
but life has two times when choice has little attention ~

At birth, we land open, naked and cold to a stranger's arms
At life’s close, all learning and loving has been disarmed.

~ Life’s design depends on what we choose to create.

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
~ Grandma Moses

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