BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER *

I am sitting on go, waiting to roll
the dice or hear the starters gun 
I’ll take off and ask questions later 
I don’t know where I’m going but
will surely get there and life will
unfold again for me
 
It will not be still life for
I need activity and much room for action 
I am not blind hearted nor am I foolish 
will not reach for a nickel in the well, but
might throw in a quarter and a dime
then roll up my sleeve and go after the forty cents 
 
I heard from a person I was interested in
developing a friendship with and the note
I received  told me I’m not supposed to love her anymore 
so much for pretending that there was something there 
 
between now and forever there is a good chance
better than a hundred and one in two hundred
that someone will come along 
 
one never knows 
on any given night anything can happen 
I am sure it will, but that’s another song 
 
In the meantime I’ll keep on being myself 
keep on writing, searching for beauty and singing 
I’ll listen for the peal of church bells,
the rumbling of trains
 
the songs of nature and look for
the deer at dawn and dusk
song birds will return
as will normalcy and all will be well again
 
Stanski
March 22, 2020 ^
 
*A tip of the hat to bryan white.

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