Life's Tree of Dreams
If I speak of time as my friend
don't think unkind of me for
accepting that my time is my destiny.
For, my yesterdays were my playground
Where I nurtured on the day,
and with each passing day put my childish
things away.
If I speak of time as my friend
As my life dwindles to its end
And I still behold tomorrow
as a hope filled day, don't think bad of me
For in all my years of living I've found,
What ever is meant to be, will be.
For, I have traveled the highways that lead
to nowhere ...
Got lost in the fields of dispair
And grasped for things from Life's tree of dreams
that wasn't there.
I have lived both sides of life, because
at times they both looked the same
until life took and twisted my heart
And taught me things that I never forgot...
Lessons painted in my mind and engraved
on my heart.
What lesson can have such power?
you might ask...
The one that says 'there can be no future,
until there's lived the past.'
-Jan Tetstone
[2005]
