Acceptance

Another year passed
Another grey hair
Another wrinkle here and there
Feet stretched over the fire

Eager was the way
He’d wanted more and more
Wanted now, wanted me me me
And wanted and craved

But with each new rung
And each new notch
He’d never found what he’s sought
Transcendence of the searching soul
To win before he grew old

And old he grew, and sure enough
All he saw, looking back, was the feeling that he’d want more too
The next thing, maybe something new
Would maybe someday pull him through

And he found that now, where he sat
Each day looking old and fat
Desire had subsided
Fire became embers

All he’d craved would soon be gone
Only time and kin, might longer on
For before he knew, he’d be gone too

And in place of all the inner rage
And the feeling of disbelief that struck greief
When he first grasped this fate
All this now replaced, subsided

And in its place only a soft inner glow
The feeling of peace long sought
But coming not from what he thought

Rather from an inner calm
Knowing he would not be long
Knowing that he’d done some wrong
And some right along the way

Somehow lived to see this day
Through the foolishness and fire of youth
Simply part of the whole play

And at least now he could rest
And warm his feet
And even chuckle at it all
And laught at fate

Fate that made him wait to see
What his father had no doubt known
And even tried to say, a time or two
Back in the day

Let it rest son
Fear not that things are this way
For this how how they must be
And all you need to see today
Is what’s before you on the way
To the same end that awaits us all

Fear not
Find peace in here and now
And having remembered this
He drifted into deep sleep