Life is an Emotion

The light in your eyes

Kept aflame by the fuel in your heart.

A candle

A lone candle

Flickering and unstable

Two messages:

I will give you light…but be careful.

Show you the way…but might burn you.

The light in your eyes replaced by that candle.

Wavering like an emotion

Perhaps it’s just an emotion.

But also, it’s a drop of water…

…till it’s an ocean.

And so, I insist your heartbeat’s heartbeat takes caution.

To prevent a quiet explosion

Whilst listening to life’s notion

And then you begin to feel it all

The love, the hate, the jealousy…

…each and every emotion

And you realize…that life…life is an emotion.

Sons And Daughters

And so, we…the sons and daughters

Gather in the garden…at the back of the now crooked house.

A fine red wine whilst we dine.

Drinking and reminiscing

A fire built in the middle.

A subtle reminder of when things were simple.

A time when our problems were dirty dishes and a pile of laundry.

A time when we would gather under the full moon and be told the stories.

Tears on our cheeks.

As growth and memories meet.

A string of nostalgia and alcohol in the mix.

Oh, mothers and fathers…

We…the sons and daughters very well miss…

…miss the simpler times…

…the better times…

…the much…much better times.