GB's Poetry
aka, soji
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Reflections on the occassion of another milestone...


                              
                               I have walked the blue hills
 
                              that formed the horizon

                               of my child-home;

                               walked the blue hills

                               and beyond.

                               Beyond mountains

                               more majestic

                               than told in tales

                               beyond great seas 

                               never so vastly imagined.


                               I have walked sunlit streets

                               crowded with humanity

                               and dark alleys

                               where the barely human

                               barely abide life.


                               I have walked in driving rains

                               and gentle mists

                               in unrelenting desert heat

                               and in the soft warmth

                               of spring.


                               My feet have been numbed

                               by winters icy onslaughht

                               and danced exhilarated

                               on autumns carpet of fire.


                               I have flown to peaks of ecstacy

                               on loves gentle wings

                               and plummeted to the depths

                               of despair at loves lost

                               known love and hate

                               joy and sadness

                               lent a hand

                               and turned my back

                               on a fellow man.


                               The years and miles

                               fade behind me

                               memories dim

                               scars heal

                               footprints

                               where I have trod

                               disappear.


                               But, that is yesterday...

                               todays dawn breaks

                               and in the distance

                               the blue hills

                               that form this new horizon

                               beckon me

                               to begin another day

                               to continue

                               this magnificent journey

                               called life.




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