Thank you

Thank you.

Heart lighting up glowing like stars
Warm hugs my son, sleeping upon my lap
And the road  goes on eating up rough miles
The car hums a tune of silence...savored.

Two ruler straight lines white demarcating blues
Every mile of the way reminding
stay your course and consciously... choose.

I smile and I cry
I stop then I start
I wonder I'm certain
I choose to let go.
I win when I lose
And miss only ghosts
When I'm mourning for loss.

But my present stirs  wide awake
Tomorrow's expectant rose
A lotus unfolding in langour
Relishing the lake.

Droopy soft petals on limbre lily stalks
Fast asleep innocence my incentive to walk
My reason to be this flesh and blood rock.

Pluck my violin bow of inspiration
courage to strum to the beat of life's drum
pick up puzzles of  jigsaw pieces....
Create carefully the correct picture
The course always considered
And starry avenues dared.

The goals forgotten yet must be won.
All else is scenic beauty...
Roadside vistas in between miles of duty...
Chug along briskly hum a little tune
Forge a path paved wiith love's strength
Not with futility's doom
Dreams of wayside beauty I save in a shrine
For days when my heart can carve a room out of
This monastery of mine
This private garden this sacred bower
Where I grow my own two dear flowers...
They are my heart's delight.
I will live, their needs are my
Solace and ground my soul indeed.

And I will cherish the notion of love.
Check and curb and weed out my excessive need
To be needed by another heart.
My heart is my own.
To it let me attend.
And not count the return
For the love I freely send.

I will live and learn to forgive
Life, I  thank you for
All my bounties
Forgive my neediness
I cannot  cherry pick your gift.

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