Stardust

Been busy the last two weeks, just getting back to normal.  Rob McManus


Stardust            8/8/2016

It was always

More of a choice

Than a feeling

The gift long held

And given away.

Feelings change

From Happiness to anger

Weighed down with time

And minutia.

Holding us back

And tempting us away

Tossed about in the surf

Over and over again. 

I slept in the sea

For what it seems like forever

Buried in the mud

With numberless dreams.

But God turned me over

And shook me awake

Plucking me out

And into the cold.

I did not know it then

But it was just what I needed

Learning all over again

How to walk

And how to stand. 

The choice was always there

The one that I avoided

So fearful of losing

That I never tried to win. 

I lost it anyway

And fell through the floor

Stripped of all I knew

And loved. 

But it was then

That finally found it

The truth falling like stardust

Priceless and irreplaceable.

Reborn and renewed

From the inside out

All is peaceful

And all is new. 

Choose love

Even with nothing

And even in loss

For death is nothing

And love,

Conquers all!