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The Puzzle of my Life = Prose
by William E Blake → (All Poetry by William E Blake)
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All about growing older and how you try to maintain control and a balance in your life.


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The puzzle that is my life is worn and
critical pieces seem to be missing.

I can’t seem to find them and some provide joy, health, fullfillment or peace.

You sense that you need all the pieces in place and to fit right.
If not, than your life feels out of balance.

When you try to force a piece into your puzzle that you want
it does not fit and it just throws everything into more crises.

Some pieces were just not meant to be in your puzzle.

You frantically try to find the right pieces and hope they fit into place so that you can feel whole again.

Your past-present and future seems to depend on having a complete and orderly puzzle like a solid chain of links.

With age the pieces do get worn and sometimes lost and we have to learn to adjust to making the good pieces of our puzzle do the extra work needed for keeping us in balance and feeling in control of our life.

The reality is that all the pieces have a purpose even if they are not your favorite or most important to you, they are there to do a job that is called life and all the good and bad that goes with it.

So I have learned to accept my worn and tattered puzzle of my life and do the best with the pieces I have left.

© 2008 William E. Blake
  

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 Reviews of "The Puzzle of my Life = Prose"
Reviewed by Margaret Blake
Reviewed on October 14, 2012
Hello Bill, I could really relate to this as I got to a point where my life was all about reclaiming pieces, finding lost ones then trying to get them to fit without knowing what the true picture looked like. My puzzle is looking pretty good now. I hope yours is too. Cheers Margaret

Reviewed by Barbara Henry
Reviewed on April 29, 2009
William,your namesake,the other English poet William Blake, would be pleased I think, with how well you have expressed a great truth.
Much success

Barbara Henry

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on February 7, 2008
That is exactly what life is, whether young or old. You have done well putting this all in perspective....

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on February 6, 2008
William, nice write and welcome to AD. I seem to always have a few pieces missing in my puzzle but it doesn't bother me because "what it is is what it is."

Peace,
Dan


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