Pages Turning

 

Some people like to build their walls

Others like to open their doors

Some prefer to walk all alone

Others hand in hand on life’s shores

 

Some people strive to find their own way

Some follow the rules as they're told

Some forge a brand new path of their own

Some stick to the roads that are old

 

All of us in our day to day worlds

With a hope and a dream and a yearning

Fighting for one bright space neath the sun

And making our way through the learning

 

Pages turning

Books without words seeking light

Pages turning

The story that each one will write

We are heartbeats in time

To a non-sensical rhyme

Notes to our spinning and churning

While the pages just keep right on turning

 

Some people love with a passion

Others through uncertainty's fear

Some welcome the force of life’s pull

Others too afraid to draw near

 

Some people rejoice and they dance

Some seek a dark place to hide

Some pave their own way to chance

Some  secret their chances inside

 

All of us in a walkaday wilderness

Each  moment a 'time-and-date' stamp

Carving our sagas from memories

That echo through mists dark and damp

 

Pages turning

No one qualifies for any exemption

Pages turning

Searching for some kind of redemption

We are blades in the grass

We are leaves falling fast

We are souls ablaze with the burning

Of the pages that just keep on turning

 

 

                           s. paul   (Oct. 2020)