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Created on: March 15, 2009
This Life, Little Stones
Watch your bare feet!
It's hot, cold, gray. pokey.
Little. smooth. and round.
Make your heels feelin funcky!
How did they get there?
Once big, now theyre small.
Did giants with sharp teeth.
Start rock chompin them all?
Come see yourself, gathering so plenty.
Sea of stones, there are so many.
Lead they may, but don't go astray.
Or else you may find, the ends a long way!
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Poetry: This life
Why does it have to hurt so much?
It tries to take away your every crutch.
Even when you know you're right,
You still seem
As seasons change from spring to Fall
And all succumbs to winter's call
This life we live it changes too
From season to
“The most important things in life”
To love and share, to honor and care
To seek and find, to put
Another day has come my way as I crawl out of bed.
To face the world, society and work for little bread.
All these days
I am never quite sure where this life is leading me,
whether I am in control.
Maybe there is such a thing as fate,
or maybe
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