Friday, April 6, 2012

The Mountain of Life


“The doors are closed” someone will say
       “locked and bolted forever that way
It must be a sign your path is to change
 
       Look for new rainbows, get out of the rain
Accept the fact that the doors are for those
       who may have compromised morals –I’m told”
Yet the heart of an artist with the highest ideals
       will never accept for “whom the bell peals”

But I do not live in a castle with doors
        with ceilings and locks and hallways and floors
For that is for people who see their fate
       as ending their value of life by date
Yet where others see doors, I only see mountains
       and atop there is that veritable fountain
I can only look up when I climb to the top
        though  my heart feels it’s bursting I never shall stop
For each day when I wake with the “gift of life
       I know that I cannot live without strife
And I reach for my hiking shoes covered with dirt
      then with great challenging adventures I flirt

  Let others grow old, but I shall be seen
               as that little girl who “pretends to be queen”.
  I shall ever be grateful for the gifts He has given
              and hundreds of miracles poured in from heaven
  I trust my Daddy who gives me His hand
        and leads me through life as my daddy named Sam



This poem was chosen for the 2011 Horizon’s Magazine


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