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What Do I Do Now?

I look me back upon the miles,
The hills I climbed and fell,
Each year that passes by my life,
I remember it so well,

When young my immortality,
To give me strength go on,
But older now,
Each year becomes,
A circle made as one.

What now?
I ask to make me laugh,

What now?
To make me cry,

For life itself not straight nor true,
Just a circle till you die.

In all the years I travelled it,
In all the days so swift,
In all the things I thought to learn,
To make my heart to lift!

What now?
To make my heart believe,

What now?
The road ahead,
What dreams be left?
To lift me up,
And leave my hunger fed,

I look me back upon the path,
My birth did set me on,
The saying true, or so it goes,
The babe the man becomes,

For all I learned and all I know,
Not one of these I care,
Tis not the knowledge a man acquires,
But the heart in him to stir,

I look me now to the future hence,
As the circles ends to meet,
Its reason in my heart to live,
As my journey now completes,

For here me lays the secret,
Of all the reasons why?
So what do I do now,

You ask? 

 

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I look the stars,

Within her eyes!

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  • Dalaney gold member
    January 6, 2008

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    keith, this is so good. No, it's better than good...it is a work of introspect and heart, and I am so very happy you wrote this for the contest. Thank you. Love, Lane


  • also called
    January 1, 2008

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    I found priorities for energy spent and expanded, may my bonus go to you

    Keith Drew kudos for having your name stand out in a contest it can

    I see an ironic doodle when looking for direction instead of spin with :
    "For life itself not straight nor true,
    Just a circle till you die." yet the above stanza discerns from stagnation feeling a single roll even, as course is criteria with rate.

    wording for worthwhileness of routine not needing vehicle of vacation is broached here :
    "What dreams be left?
    To lift me up,"
    as for something more than having breakfast or not but whether without schedule that would be towards stamina, ultimately by apparent lingering. Thus the motivation of a tot to soak up seems to not make it a crisis for giving, "My birth did set me on" though feeling a leash so to speak isn't against release ideas.

    and no chaseness is best studied as drawing close, even to provider of it all for love!

    this personal write isn't for elimination...
    also called


  • Nature Song silver member
    December 31, 2007

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    Look to the endless stars, a continious never ending light that fills the night sky! Life is a circle its just how you live it my friend! ~Sie


  • echo-ink
    December 31, 2007
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    Loved this.lovvvved this.

    I think this is the best poetry i have read so far. awesome.

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