Life in Pause

Within the forest of this home of wonder,
there lives many beasts with a growing hunger.
A power they possess with a strength to destroy,
yet see it not with wisdom but as a child would see a toy.

they have split their souls between two Gods,
yet do not realize they share the same odds.
With their life of want, desire and need,
they do not not look ahead as to where this will lead.

In the journey to have what they wish to possess,
how it will be in the end really matters the less.
For in striving to have is what gives them their fire,
that gives them their energy to send their souls higher.

When it is all said and done and desires come to pass,
what then in a world that is all theirs to grasp.
there will be nothing left undone-
nothing else left to do-
it will be as they wanted it -
not the place that they knew.

No new wars to win-
no old grudges to face-
the world would become a most solemn place.
All the struggles they passed that got them to here,
are a lost reminder on a frozen tear.

They settle themselves in this newfound embrace,
and keep their eyes open...
just in case.


Diana Nelson 8/29/2005