BETTER LATE than never...good cliche'. This one's for ONE STOP POETRY / One Shot Wednesday...WHERE DO THE DAYS GO? I meant to get an earlier start..I recommend that you read all the splendid poems entered on that site..onward and upward with the arts!!
MESSAGE
Today I saw a message
reappear in the sand.
I thought a wave
had taken it forever.
Didn't know
that I could catch
time reverse.
Me dreaming?
Maybe not.
It said, say thank you
for your life.
Be grateful
for all effects,
chew the gristle,
die in a dungeon
dance in the red shoes
that bled me.
And I did.
I called my life wonderful.
I scraped the ache off my heart,
like mud off a tattered shoe.
Soul is what stays.
Always say thank you
for the speck that starts a life,
else you would never be here.
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