The journey can be dark
12.15.07 (1:49 pm) [edit] 
The journey can be dark
The journey can be dark and cold,often loneliness our only companion,
so we often seek surcease in ways destructive
yet they perhaps keep us alive.
Money, fame and power don't seem to help,
though they can make the journey lighter,
though for some it all ends in tragedy and sorrow
yet such things are sought on life's dark journey.
Beauty and health can desert us on without warning,
what taken for granted lost in an instant,
gone the world becoming a smaller place
as slowly we are backed in corners as the years slide by.
Yet in the end what makes it bearable
is something simple and elegant it presentation,
making us willing to bear all things,
yes to even hope,
and to believe,
yes so simple,
common even yet unique for each,
not mere sentimentality
but rooted in something deeper and lasting
and it is called love.