WEARY

Do you think you can hurt me
Calling me old
You are such a young soul
A joy to behold
Unknowing to life
The beginning of wonder
A story untold
The world there to plunder
And already I know
You think I'm a bore
Sad, mad and crazy
One step from deaths door
And for sure
Be sure
To life's treasures embrace
The love, laughter, friends
The thrill of the race
The power
The conquest
Life's joy, to behold
The adrenalin buzz
A drug of the bold
But
Should you know also
The dark side of life
If life whispers to you
Of its trouble and strife
If losses and problems and  heartbreak unfold
One day you have nothing
The next you have gold
As the waves of your life
Roll back and fore
You
Never knowing
What it's left at your door
And if sometimes
Life's murmers
Are too much to bear
The misery, suffering
The horror out there
Then you may wish also
In some cold night off far
As you sit and are humbled
At the light of a star
That it won't be so bad
For life's journey to cease
And in the haunting full moon
You may then know some peace.
(Marion Price) 2017

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