Today

No more words to follow the deeds

No more ambition to follow the passion

This is the life we lead

This is the path we heed

Another world takes the life we knew

The edges wash away with these western tides

And all that isn’t fully a part

Falls apart

It washes into the oceans below

A young man might call this loneliness

And older man might see this and understand it

But one is all we need

And most often, that isn’t even

A part of the deal

This is what you become

Whether successful or

One of life’s beautiful losers

This is what you choose

This is what you witness

This piece of life is no longer mine

This piece of my heart is no loner fine

We follow the path that is lead

And we sink just like it

Until the day we wake up dead

The heart learns to obey

The mind leads the passions astray

The body bends day after day

And the soul, if lucky, awaits its reckoning day

We see the time has come

If ever it’s to come to pass

To pass onto our seed

If there’s some hope for our soul to last

We let life bleed away our worth

In order to breed this child its birth

And hope and pray that maybe one day

Those dreams might manifest their best

Through this glimmer of life before it too

Becomes yet again part of this becoming earth

ⓒ 2008 Shawn Michael Quinn