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Silent Lips

SPIRIT
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since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

0 posted 2006-04-25 03:41 PM

Silent Lips

In aging
There is a certain solace
In watching the sand of time
Trickle through the hourglass
…of our lives.
How acute the knowledge is
That every minute grain
Is a precious commodity,
Not to be wasted.

When we were very small
Parents anxiously
Hovered over us,
For fear we would get lost.
And get lost we did
As our hands slipped away
From those we were holding.

As we grew
We crossed illicit borders
In an attempt to escape
The boundaries
Of our limitations.

We were free
(Or so we thought).
We ran wild with like packs,
And taunted our guardians
For their worrying.

Eventually we settled
Many of us…
To become parents
Hovering anxiously
For fear our children
Would become lost.

In aging
There is a certain solace
In seeing one’s grown children
Hovering…
Over their children
For fear they will get lost.

The words
‘I told you so’
Lay just so gently
On silent lips.

Joyce Johnson