NEW LIFE

Love and sorrow have come my way,

We’ve all known life - - and death,

But my heart grown strong today

Is filled by joy’s great depth.

Sweet laughter and shinning smiles

Bring warming pleasure indeed.

Imagining the future of many miles

I know I must take heed

Of pot holes in daily living,

Of mountains yet to climb,

Of taking as well as giving,

Of weathering the passage of time.

The winds of time have blown my way

Both peace and challenge day by day.

I’ve basked in love and faced the one

Knowing so well what must be done.

 So I must choose in this new phase

Other interests, other ways

To think, to live, to be, to see,

To write or sit or sail the seas.