In Hearts & Souls & Verse
Author’s Note to the Future
I wish I could be there with you in your time. I am very sure everything would be fascinating and fantastic.
Along with that wish, I also wonder if you have ever pondered what life might be like in my time, as I have often imagined myself in my own ancestors’ pasts.
As long as we are all human though, some things will always be the same. Since the beginning of time, we have all laughed and cried, worked, and played. Today we do these things much differently than we did one hundred years ago, and I assume it will be different still, one hundred years hence.
However, the important things will never change. Love and honor, empathy and compassion, sadness and joy, reverence, and awe. My past was full of family, a huge one, and very extended. Today, we are a much smaller group, but I now embrace a different definition of “family.” If you care, if you strive to change, to learn, to grow, if you love, then “I’m in you and you’re in me.” We are family.
Poem of the Month for The Holiday Season
Wonderful Time
Come dance with me
whispered the wind chimes to the wind.
Let’s waltz together and let me feel
your breezy breath upon me.
Let’s rock the ages
to the rhythm of your growing excitement.
Let’s dance for joy
and whirl and twirl
and twist and tangle and have a wonderful time.
Come sing to me
begged the moon of the earth wolf.
Lament the lullabies of days long gone.
Bark and bay your sweet ballads
of love and life as I pull you
into my shimmering embrace.
Howl hymns of happiness and praise and God,
simple songs that serve us well.
Let’s sing for joy because life is a wonderful time.
Come play with me
pled the puppy to his siblings.
Wriggle and roll with me
in the sandbox of our youth.
Grunt and growl and wrestle with me.
Tug my tail and spin me round and round and
run with me until we are all done.
We always play together in joyful abandon
and we have a wonderful time.
Come laugh with me
called the clown to the crowd.
Laugh at all my jokes and
pranks and puns of wit and whimsy.
Laugh wrinkles are the best kind,
and laughter is the best medicine
as fun never hurt anyone,
or so I have been told.
Appreciate my antics and my wisecracks,
winking and wincing all the way.
Laughing for joy is a wonderful time.
Come cry with me
my country’s law urged its land.
Weep with me when we are weary
with worry, aching
to bring back times long past.
Wail with me about life’s injustices. We must
work together to do what must be done.
Now let the tears wash away all fears as we wait
in joyful anticipation for
the return of the wonderful times.
Come be with me
every person asks the other.
Let’s dance and sing and play and laugh and cry.
Let’s share our joy because
together we will make a wonderful time.
JSD
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