Seeds Strown
Love/Fear No. 85
Every poem in Hearts on the Line stems from an anonymous person graciously answering two questions: “What is my greatest love?” and “What is my greatest fear?” The rest is just my poetry…
Life Is a Word, and Love Is a Sentence. Some friendships are a desert bloom being called by the monsoon. A beauty of its time. And when the clouds again roll back, before long, the foundation cracks, under the altered sky. A little gift of short-lived bliss. Some friendships are a potted plant, and no one has picked up the can. Neglected for too long. Perhaps, if someone served it well, its colors would return again, under the angled spout. A memory that might still be. Some friendships are an ancient pine with more rings than most else combined. A cut above the rest. A monument to all that lasts, and, from its trunk, a shade is cast, under its steadfast stem. A treasure beyond measure. In the soil where all things grow, anything might come and go. The sober facts of life. Let us bask in what we have, as we walk barefoot in the grass, under the shifting lights. A hibiscus stands between us. Thank You to the Human Spirit…
I would be grateful if you shared your own love and fear on this link…
It’s anonymous and could lead to the next poem!
This person’s greatest love was “my friends.”
Their greatest fear was “life after university.”
I guess one thing that can be said about life after university is that it may change the landscape of friends a person has.
Some will stay, some might vanish, and some may be somewhere in between.
Love that last stanza, Hasse. Also this: "anything might come and go."
One thing we've truly lost as a culture is understanding how to see the world from the perspective of those who are older than us. I don't think too many kids at universities realize at the time that all of their experiences there become anecdotal as time passes beyond graduation. Not that they don't matter of course; just that in hindsight, university days are often seen as a small chapter in their lives and not the main story. It's very hard to understand this at the time, I think.