Is this why I danced?
With daisies in my hair
Wore skirts so short
My cheeks were constant blush
And mothered children:
To slip so quietly into assisted living and oatmeal
The past is paved within me
Roads and rooms so filled with what has been
Built upon the gentle stones of schoolyards and promise
Cemented with ambition and dreams
Sorrows and despair.
There are worlds within me,
My vision shines with them
Alive and touching all that I am
Sinew in my soul, whittled wisdoms in my thoughts.
Such eyes as these should not close
With nothing to remember that the future glides
On my footsteps.
Copyright Penstruck
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