Dedicated to my children
One morning, when you awaken
at my age now, you will realize
how your life has become a forest
of highways, webs and rivers
that sometimes flow smoothly
and sometimes laden with rocky obstacles,
as spiders challenge your ride.
When you awaken, you will look back
like I do now and wonder how
the leaps of time could make you seventy
and how you feel as if you’ve missed
some chapters,
that had no beginning or end
as you cruised from day to day,
just being.
just surviving.
You too will ask these questions
in the last chapter of your own life,
long after I am gone to guide you,
long after will have any answers
that could please or help you.
But I know after all these years,
you will find your way, because
of who you are and how you love
and how you care for everyone
and everything that crosses
your path on this tumultuous
journey that we call life.
-Diana Raab
Diana Raab, MFA, PhD, is a memoirist, poet, workshop leader, thought-leader and award-winning author of 14 books and editor of three anthologies. Her work has been widely published and anthologized. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. She frequently speaks and writes on writing for healing and transformation.
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