Gems

February 11th, 2021

My life is a book of details.

Words tell the story, 

the highs and lows, 

the friends and foes.

I rotate around the sun like a tiny planet

enduring changing seasons and changing tides.

Into the deep ocean I dive,

hoping to survive.

 

To turning a page in this older book. 

I have entered a new age.   

Somehow growing younger 

with eyes and mind full of wonder

An ageless soul 

Who has begun to turn gray,

not wanting to decay.

 

I gather diamonds and pearls 

from others I listen to and hear

along the way

A journey where I am becoming 

unstuck, 

unlearning 

what I thought I knew.

 

I bid the old ways of thinking

ado.

  

Rewriting the once self 

I thought I was.  

Always evolving, 

learning 

constantly yearning 

seeking knowledge and truth

rising up from my youth.

 

Music which flows from a person 

IS the person.  

And the life lived

IS their song

And their song that is heard every day

may change due to the instruments 

that are near or far.

 

I also know that the poem IS the poet,

a photo taken IS the photographer

and to dance

laugh 

and work doing one’s passion 

is to live and truly be free.

 

This book is older, yet new

with it’s worn leather cover

and words and chapters 

asunder.   

This new page 

with a different age

is me.

 

Holly S Thomas

2/11/21