. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Is this the lonely secret of your life?

Monday, August 28, 2023

Is this the lonely secret of your life?

  

Memoirs from the Book of Secrets



(A lone voice whispers.)


Have you ever looked deep into the mirror and wondered if you're really
done enough


Left something tangible something future generations can listen to

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 sad eyes that still might pine


One holiday a year
Warm 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



And create a new legacy filled with taking chances on newer challenges

They or you will never be ashamed to forget



Copyright John Duffy

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