Second Chance

Second Chance                   11/5/2015

Some dreams

May not come true

But dreams are only dreams

Flying across our minds

A million times a day.

Life is unpredictable

And life is a roller coaster

A strange mess

That we try to contain

And make sense of.

We are thrown together

Seemingly haphazardly

Randomly placed

Into families and groups.

Dropped into

And plucked out of

Situations and places

Strange, innumerable

Odd and chaotic.

It was only after
I stopped trying

That anything made any sense

And it was only after

I gave up

That I knew what I needed.

Looking backwards

From a far distance

Only then do we see

And begin to understand. 

Bittersweet but beautiful

The passage of time

Burning a patina on my mind

And etching it

On my face.

What I lost

I lost

But what I gained

Is everything.

The past falls away

Poignant and fuzzy

As the good become great

And the bad become nothing.