There’s Only One Way Out
All it takes is a lifetime
The circle of life is a curious thing,
And it’s one we are all guaranteed,
There’s a start and a definitive finish line,
It’s written in humanity’s famous creed.
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But that’s all that we can bank on,
The rest is one day at a time,
Your decisions, your wins, your mistakes, your lessons,
Yours will be different from mine.
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Life is short, brutal, beautiful and essential,
A period made up of thousands of minutes in a day,
Many a sunrise, hundreds of sunsets,
A rainbow on the horizon, a quintessential array.
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A birthing of love, a celebration of hope,
A pleasure urn full of wishes and dreams,
The heart racing destiny fated as one,
A silver lining cloudiness of lunar beams.
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The other side is the darkness of negativity,
A lungful of screams, eyes that cry a torrid stream,
A heart that breaks as a painful lesson scars,
The feelings aching of destroyed and broken dreams.
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A cascading shower of ever revolving losses,
Morphing into a blossom of flowering gifts,
A door or two closing against better wishes,
As a lucky draw shatters and shifts.
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Against the wisdom of the nighttime hours,
Shadows that follow the lightening dawn,
Starlight glistens upon our future,
As another new life is magically born.
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Lives lived within the start and ending,
A vessel full of endless possibilities,
Roam the highways given so freely,
And enjoy the essence of life’s responsibilities.
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About the Creator
Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Comments (3)
Let's focus on the dash between date of birth & date of death & make the most/best of it we can.
Excellent poetry, of someone who experienced the wisdom of living . To start the poem with the Circle of life, says it all. Infinity of life for sure . 🥰Welcome back
I like how this didn't sugar coat life. You showed both how beautiful and ugly life can be. I loved it!