-- Our Changing Moods --

John Herlihy

When our moods come upon us, we can never resist,

Flashing as shadows or rainbows that never persist.

An unexpected event occurs to make us feel moody;

The simple scent of a flower can make us feel woozy.

A wayward hope beams clear with its startling vision;

An insistent moment arrives we must make a decision.

Who can account for all the daily moods that emerge;

Conflicting moods with the power our hearts to purge.

All those successes and failures, the joys and sorrows;

All the empty hours filled with our moody tomorrows.

Yet few moods persist in the presence of sea and sky;

Their boundlessness felt within us as an endless sigh.

The one faithful mood where we never felt betrayed;

One enduring mood as light in the soul that stayed.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Saturday 4 December 2021