Life Line

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Speaks for itself. Comments welcome.

Life Line

In measured beats the heart keeps track,

Of moments more than cardiac.

Accompanied by a rhythm sure,

A life rolls on its linear tour.

Each step along the one-way route,

The sign-posts read - or cast in doubt,

By choices to observe or not,

And question always "why?" or "what?"

A life moves on from here to there,

Each choice selecting where to where,

Each moment offers two roads to take,

The destination - our own to make.

Looking back along that line we see,

A life in vivid colors lived.

Yet black and white beneath the hues,

Where choices meant to gain or lose,

We saw and grasped what had to be,

For us to live a life completely.

No tears for life lived to its best,

For lines that traveled straight and true,

From soft, sweet dawn to setting sun,

For hours and minutes lived fully through.

We always chose the sunlit path,

The road lit bright as glorious dawn,

Which showed us reason’s light and life,

And beckoned us to follow on.

The line, the life, near at its end,

With one last act to seal the goal:

Happy at having lived _this_ life,

A beaming smile to sum the soul.

Ed Scheiderer

[bignosedcopperking 0]

Life Line was good; good, keep on writing poetry and I hope to read more.

Jose Gainza.

[Betsy Speicher 0]

Charming!

[Carolyn Buby 0]

I enjoyed reading this poem--I love the line about a "beaming smile to sum the soul."

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carbub,Dec 25 2005, 11:02 AM]

I enjoyed reading this poem--I love the line about a "beaming smile to sum the soul."

Thank you, Carolyn.

It expesses what I began with -- and what I expect to eventually end with. The quoted AR signature line is me. Which , of course, is why I selected it.

ELS