Moving Forward

Keeping Up

An active mind
Chases ahead
Idealistic paths mapped
Every so often
In high expectations trapped
More than living in the moment
We cannot do
Everyday
Becomes a lifetime
Soon

Before long
Everyday a lifetime
Accumulated pain
Collected in baskets
Woven with laughter
Chasing the sun in the shadows
Life all about
Ups and downs
With special moments we are crowned

In split seconds
We make memories to keep
Chasing pain
To the scrapheap
New seeds grow
Amongst fallen trees
Watered with tears
The living weep
Progressively from misery
We creep

Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2011-08-15