A Life Well Lived

Waking to your children, wide-eyed, watching Saturday morning cartoons, with syrup on their breath is a life well lived.

Driving on a mountain road, wind in your hair, your favorite music ringing in your ears is a life well lived.

Making love to your spouse as rain pours down and thunder claps in the middle of the night is a life well lived.

Finding yourself in personal reflection with a notebook and pen in hand is a life well lived.

Reaching a goal, trying to reach a goal or even realizing that goal is not what you wanted, is a life well lived.

Having a personal relationship with your God and knowing he loves you no matter what is a life well lived.

Talking on the phone with an old friend, acting like you are in junior high again, is a life well lived.

Working hard for the things and relationships you have, and treating them all with respect is a life well lived.

Finding the love of your life and doing everything you can to keep them, is a life well lived.

Watching your children achieve and picking them up when they fail, no matter their age, is a life well lived.

Lying on your deathbed with the ones you love near, knowing you will see them again, having absolutely no regrets, is a life well lived.

Distant

Your green eyes are so distant,

What worries are consuming you?

Drawn to memories of the past?

I know they are haunting me too.

So bright I know you once were,

Full of life, overcoming your fears.

Now the dark is taking over,

All I see are mascara stained tears.

Your distance keeps growing colder,

Is all lost with your pain?

Black poison enters your system,

Those green eyes dilate again.

Mocking synthetic heat takes over,

You crawl inside your personal abyss,

Killing that desolate monster inside.

I can not look at all the hours you miss.

You are not dead, I know you are just lost.

We will  not leave you forever in the dark.

With much effort the agony will subside,

The scars will only leave their tiny mark.

My green eyes are so distant.