the lost rainbow

Your poems smile with lovely images

Of nature and children and life

They bring a blessing to my world

Like a lovely soft rainshower

That gently falls

On a day of crippling heat

But at times I am reminded of the deep

And of the dark place

Where there was no light

I seemed to live within

For so many years

What use now to regret the past

When in truth its just what we had to live through

To get to here

What purpose to complain about the hand of cards

We were dealt by fate?

And yet we do

Just possibly the pain of the schism

Between what we longed for and what we got

Will drive us on a quest to make a new path

Out of the encounter with

What we did and failed to do

At the necessary time

And for some it will be a long long ride

to get to the place where we can finally

Smile at and love the person in the mirror

We wake with each morning

And take into the land of dreams at night

And so if we lost the way to our rainbow

Let our souls wait upon the rain showers

Because perhaps in time a new one will

Appear over the horizon

The closer and closer we move towards

Embracing and making sense of

Each and every one

The faltering steps we took

The choices we made

The wisdom borne through all

Of our lessons and suffering