Live

Gone are the days of youth and beauty
of playfulness, zeal and grandeur

I have awakened unto years of reason
of wisdom; aged and refined

There is a sadness~
a mourning of my adolescence

A passage of time rarely felt
lost all the same

I will embrace this existence
Yet I fight my way through my new truth

Glorifying a past unwanted in its moments;
moments studied anew

Reflection soon fades
Reality settles in and welcomes me

My distant past gives way
shimmering in the distance

Warm arms of womanhood embrace me
pull me, push me

The passion of marriage
The light of my children
The strength of knowledge

Pain conquered
Life and death survived

Beauty and peace fall over me
flow through me and around me

“You are alive!” My soul screams to me
“Live”