Finders Keepers

 Finders Keepers 10/30/2013

All that is done

Is done

And that which was

Has vanished into thin air

Disappearing into the spaces

In between spaces. 

We say hello

And we say goodbye

But how much difference

Do our gestures make

Just another drop in the rain

Percolating downwards forever.

It had been so long

That I had forgotten

That everything comes back

If you love

And if you try. 

It may take a decade

Or maybe even more

But all of it,  can melt away

Like it never happened at all. 

The light has not died

Just because we cannot see it

Doesn’t mean that it’s not there

And those we love still remain

Even after

They are gone.

There will always be more

Than what we see

And that is

The best thing of all. 

There is no need to grasp

And there is no need to jostle

Because everything we miss

Will return with more. 

Good follows the good

Even in suffering

And even in death

Recreated and reconstructed

A million times better

Than before. 

If I had given up

Then I would have never known

And but for the thinnest of margins

Even love

Would have never survived. 

God loves us

Even when we fail

Pulling for us to wake up

And know that he is there. 

We stood while we could

And that is enough

Because it is far better that we tried

Than if we curled up

And died. 

I also remember

What it means to lose it all

But every single set back

Opens us all up for more. 

Our thoughts, hopes and dreams

Often guide our thinking

But eternal love

Is the treasure

We are all glad to find.