As the seconds pass, We look back At what our lives have held. As the minutes pass, We see what fell through the cracks. Parts of our lives we withheld. As the hours pass, We think of what we learned, What we have taught, What we have forgotten. As the days pass, We wish a lot could be returned. We wish we would have never fought You hope they forget me not. As years pass, You stand alone. They have all grown, Married and gone Or on their own. As your life passes, You stand proud, Looking how well they raise their own. You did well. Live on...
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ― Louise Erdrich