Keeping Up

An active mind

Chases ahead

Idealistic paths mapped

In high expectations trapped

More than living in the moment

We cannot

Every day

Becomes a lifetime

Soon

Soon

Everyday a lifetime

Accumulated pain

Collected in baskets

Woven with laughter

Chasing the sun

In the shadows

Life all about

Ups and downs

With the special moments we are crowned

With special moments

Memories made to keep

Eventually chasing pain

To the scrapheap

New seeds

Grow amongst fallen trees

Watered with tears

Only the living weeps

Gradually

From misery we can creep

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-07-23 (typed, but written sometime earlier).