Memoirs from the Book of Secrets

Have you ever looked deep

Into the mirror

 

And wondered if you've really

Done enough

Left something tangible

Something future

 

Generations can listen

See or read through

And make a fuss

 

A legacy of your vision or dreams

Stories they maybe can trace

Through a time

 

When you were once young

And free

 

Chasing life

Filled with deep dreams

 

Or drunk and lucid

Spilling stories whilst licked up

On Loves delicious red wine

 

What do you see

When you look really deep

 

Into the Mirrors of Time

 

Past all the makeup

Wrinkles

Beards

Or eyes that still might pine

 

One holiday a year

Smiles in the 2 week hot

Sun

 

Then back to work

Grinding hard through the

Year

 

For a return

To your only perk

 

Is that the only legacy

You're going to leave

To describe your dreams

 

Is that the lonely story

Of your lifetime

 

Or are you going to reach

Deep into the breach 

 

Place your chips on life's ever

Spinning roulette's

 

And create a new legacy

They'll never be ashamed to forget

Copyright John Duffy