The Key of Life

Ancient of days

Steeps in tomorrow

Smells of the past

And the sun reminds us of time nonexistent

Cairo in the Morning

 Molten gasp

Sun sizzles skin

Like a call to prayer

The Palm Trees guard the sky 

Fanning the clouds away

What will the world do?

 Something has been gnawing at the edges of everything I do

Can't sleep

Can't enjoy a good cry

Anxious about what the future may bring

I will end

I have known this forever

But now I feel it in every fiber of my being

Why now?

I should be enjoying everything

My marriage

My children

My comfortable life

There is a bright spot inside

That just won't let go

I want adventure

I want the satisfaction of doing a job well done

Youth is what I yearn for

Really?

Not youth, but a calmness that one enjoys in being older and wiser.

When will it come?

Maybe respect?

Is it too late for that?

I respect me,

Army Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Teacher, Author, Poet, Sister and Sister-in- Law.

I am living a life

Of self-satisfaction

And maybe I don't want it to end

Yet.

Happiness

 And so it does continue

Life chases life

Opines the retinue

Success for the husband and wife

Being a good mom

 Being a mom is relatively easy

Being a good mom is the hardest

How many times have I wanted to just walk out?

I have to thank my mom and dad-they were the real heroes

Even when they wanted to stop being the grown-ups, they didn't

I was fed, got presents at Christmas, my mom baked homemade birthday cakes, and even made my wedding dress.

I learned how to be a compassionate and loving human from my mom

She always had time for me, a word of encouragement, never did she ever make me feel lesser.

I was a very, very blessed kid.  And I was one of seven

What time is it, anyway?

 In Julius Caesar, old Bill wrote about clock strikes

Many years before the likes of chiming clocks appeared

And what about pool or billiards, as some say,

Cleopatra declined to play and instead went fishing for the day

Poor Machiavelli is synonymous with rascal

In Joan of Arc and Henry VI, Shakespeare created a timely disaster

Aristotle was a great orator 

But was not living in the time of Troilus and Cressida

Such is a gun shot in Mid-Summers Night Dream-

Time is not what it seems