Bitter Sweet

Written: 2002

Life is full of birth and death.
It is a never ending cycle.
We come from our mothers;
The first experience to the light.
We live in a bubble of innocence.
Then at once, sooner or later,
The innocence dies, and we mourn.

We live in a haze, constantly struggling;
Full of questions with no answers.
Lost and confused, the darkness beckons.
Eventually our struggles are rewarded.
We are awaken to a new light.
Just as dawn is surrounded varying color,
Life becomes full of grays.
Wiser now, we mourn the passing of
Our innocence, longing for remembered days.

Fearfully we look to the future
To try and determine what is in store.
We no longer fear death,
For we have experienced it already.
We have been cloaked in darkness
Surrounded by loneliness and detached
from the heavenly light.

Now we must survive until we can return
Through the final death in life, the grave.