------The Journey------

Is life truly like a river
that flows a span of time
within a living poem
a single verse of rhyme

Does life have special meaning
more than flesh and bone?
which makes us search for reasons
of why we're born to live, then gone

It's said each person's different
our unique paths we choose to go
Yet rain can't pick just where it falls
or clouds which way they blow

Each raindrop falls as one to bond
as streams flow to the sea
Is life on earth somehow connected
toward goals no one can see?

Do war and peace and progress lead
to fates  extraordinaire?
Is life a mortal step we take
or is death the last deed we bear?

Though the truth of life may be obscure
possibilities and hope remain
that life's short moments are just a flicker
of our soul's eternal flame..