PEACE ON THE SHORELINE

“You can waste whole lifetime

Trying to be

What you think is expected of you

But you'll never be free.”

 

- Mark Pistel & Phillip M. Steir

 

To absent friends … stay safe, be well and go in peace

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRTXnAxlxTc

GONE FISHING – CHRIS REA

 

What will I do the next time when someone deserts me

will I be like I was yesterday

now so far already in the distant past

will I weep silently in the dark

for myself or for the loss of you

and then move swiftly on,

my sails adjusted; pressed aft against my mast

or will I dwell on life's misfortunes

as I used to do so long ago

perhaps you had good reason

to let me fall so suddenly and yes, you were so brutal

perhaps it was to protect me

perhaps it was to spare me; save me from it all

still it wounds and blood seeps from the cuts

and spills onto the rough-hewn wooden floor

seeps through the gaps into the darkness of the earth

It is not for me to reason why

people choose to come and go;

that is the way of life and then we die

some stop to teach me all the wisdom that they know

some stop to learn from me before they too must go

everything is transient this much is what we know

life, love, good fortune and bad luck

it is futile to try to duck or to cling on to a boomerang

just because of fear of letting go lest it won't come back

that is why I mostly leave an open door

rarely do I shut the door and throw away the key

but even then all is not always lost

as long as words we say are less not more

and if a lesson's learned or taught and we are true to core

then maybe some day you will curve your swerve right back to me

Until then our paths remain divided as you chose

to carry on without me, but like a rose

that blooms so beautifully in Spring and through the Summer

then sheds it's soft and velvet petals to enrich the earth

lays dormant and decaying throughout Winter

until it will come into bloom again at it's rebirth

stronger and more beautiful than the Fall

the ending led once more to new beginnings

and like the sweetest briar rose

and the phoenix from the ashes

I will begin once more to rise above it all.

 

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