Gold Framed Experience

Having lived with zest and naked exposure

Experience can be challenging

How today’s living is handled

Against yesterday’s possible mishandling

Weighs heavily on the psychic of honesty

Anecdotal happenings can mount up in a single day

Bringing a tsunami of rush across one’s defenses

And all…

Started with birth’s first burst of crying

The dawn of life suddenly surrounding innocence

Beginning the journey living had in store

Childhood

Crying and laughter

Mud pies and 5-cent lemonade

Cotton candy and helium balloons

Funhouse dizziness

Rollercoaster thrills

Adolescence

One’s first kiss

Discovering private parts developing

License to drive

Traffic chaos

Study

Party

Prepare for SATs

Young Adulthood

Serious courting

Get engaged

Don’t get engaged

Cozy up for the raise

Discover the bonus as prison

Adulthood

Family

Births

Mortgages

Anxiety

Feeling no purpose

Finding purpose

Expressing opinions

Alienating some

Befriending others

Independence cost

Old age

Weeping in a pillow

Remembering when crying was expected

Staring into nothingness

Smiling at one’s totality

Appreciating goodness

Knowing it took some bad

To find the good

Experience

Begins to fade

Stroking your cat that all is well

Offering your hand for the dog’s lick of hello

How are you

Not so good

I see

Desperation holds firm to certain memories

Darkness

Seeing through the maze what might be beyond

Hearing the importance of what’s left

Smelling the articulation of Nature’s breath

Tasting the nectar of passing

Touching the hand leading you…

Such a journey

This labyrinth of experience