When we look back
Recalling life’s dreams
Do we rest easy
Or imagine our screams?
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Life likely did not follow
A path higher and lighter
Our need to control and know
Made us much like a fighter.
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We strove, we clawed to
Reach our highest Mountain View
Yet no matter how hard we tried
Was meaningless without You.
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Yesterday is just a memory
Can do little to change
Our stories are uniquely ours
No matter how strange.
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Each one informs us
As we enter a fresh, new day
We honor, learn, remember
Perhaps choosing a new Way.
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Worn paths do not determine
These not our destiny
As we trust and surrender
Counting our days as brevity.
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This moment, this day
Let me release all my plans
Instead let me be present
No matter the demands.
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A life well lived is not
Just how we lived in the past
It is how we spend this day
A word, a hug, a noticing that
Lasts.
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A poem about not taking life for granted.