Sunrise Meditations

By: Fee

This poet makes no claim to secret knowledge or the experience of age

I see no reason to bolster my past or expound freely on every page

Time and I didn’t always get along but I’ll not cry about that

Now and then I made my sins and my list of wrongs was fat

I lived more than five times ten of the good seasons and bad

Treasured love of a good woman though sometimes it too was sad

Fell down drunk a time or two on the bitterness of humanity’s tears

And way too many nights I lay awake when sanity ignored my fears

Seen myself in my child’s eyes, ate up the adoration of her smile

Saw the child of my own child and walked hand in hand with her a while

My name may grace some fading page when all is said and done

Just sign my rock I lived, loved and laughed beneath this earthly sun