Your Book

 

The story is unique as are all the others

from a first chapter of pristine quality

there unravels a personal narrative

 abundant with love and sorrow

time filled memories long since past

People who came and went

to be replaced and re enacted

in endless realms of time and space

Moments of self doubt and despair

then to leap upwards into the air

Dark times of anxiety and betrayal

the beckoning of a new love to

replace some flame long since extinguished

Journeys to and fro interspersed

with languid inertia in barren landscapes

Awoken by self interest and ambition

the courage to embrace and revitalise

to shed the skin of old, to be bold

The pen writes on chapter upon chapter

until the epilogue, not written by the author

but by the author of life

who laid the pen to rest at the final page

and closed the book