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A Life
The water sparkles,
Shimmers
Like a broken dream
Taunting
Tantalizing
Tempting
Yet unreachable
A tangible thing
That which can be grazed by fingertips,
Yet never firmly grasped
Always just out of reach
She rows her small vessel
Toward that luring spark
Yet it dances away
Once again
So that all around her
Is still water's glassy surface of mirrors
A face looks at her
Eyes that have seen
Beauty
Pain
Fear
Love
Death.
Many wrinkles,
Lines
Telling stories,
Tales
Of days
Weeks
Months
Years
So many years,
So many tales
Wooden paddle breaches the surface
Ripples distort
Tales are erased
Eyes swim
Before they are gone
Another glimmer
Excitement for a future
Said to be so much better
But when the bow is upon it,
There is only murky water
The only spark within reach
Is the one that hides under the surface
Where you are, not where you will be
It can be grasped if only you try.
A lined hand,
Skin stretched thin over blue veins
Reaches into the water
Grasps the spark
Paddles to shore
All her life pulses in the spark
She watches,
Tears in those ancient eyes
And when it ends she sees.
She sees that there was
Something in every moment
She sees that she has helped, healed,
Loved, lost, and learned to love again
Succeeded and failed
She sees that she has lived
Far more than many do
She finds a grove of pines
A bed of rust colored needles
And lays down
She is ready
She is still
She is going
Home.
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