The Price of Life

[Muffit]

What price Youth? Whether stilled in infant cradles, or shallow breath in wrinkled shrouds, both bow the soul to Humiliation’s cotton changing, like lambs sheared clean of dignity. Rebel gray tissues with echoes resounding, or slates as bare as untouched wax; to exist is to mourn Life’s passing, and let slip joy in mirthless convalescent halls and tearful oncology warrens.



An incident befell us in that distant youth, a mother’s greatest fear for womb’s soft sculpture. As we crossed a simple dirt bridge between the curious red and yellow lakes surrounding, our old pale Dodge’s hood in 50’s latch-less fashion flew up and blinded further progress. Sixty miles an hour with traffic facing, and not an inch of shoulder to save the children and their warder. I survived that day to reach the pain of crushed and broken dreams, a midlife amphora which cannot even stand, my contents now dilute in age’s stream.



Why do hearts covet so, the loss that so soon fills them? Memories abandoned like mute Crusoes, waiting for a passing hope to save them. And Hope, that wily Circes charm, at once a rescue rope and noose, persuades us leave the truth a retread by the wayside of regret. And bids us call insanity friend and mentor, to let bland normalcy grow moss on unlit sides.



The necklaced Annie sunrise sings better loved and lost than not at all; the abandoned blush of sunset weeps that loss is far worse than want, the eon of love brief as a kitten’s, the epoch following interminable as etched marble epitaphs. BSG was naught but the blink of a butterfly’s eye, awaiting its return the Doppler thrust of stars.



When evening wraps me shivering in insomnia, Fantasia’s brooms of long lost joys parade by, and leave by buckets tears I have yet to cry.



Affectionately,

Muffit

[Dawg]

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I am
Dawg

[repcisg]

Wow

[Muffit]

((((((((( Dawg & Repcisg )))))))))))))))

Thank you so very much...

[BST]

Beautiful, Muffit, just beautiful!!

[braxiss]

Originally Posted by Dawg

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mind if i borrow this? i couldn't have said it any better

[amberstar]

You have a way with words Muffit one that stirs the emotions and pulls on the heart strings but leaves a smile on ones face.

Thanks so much for the post!

[Muffit]

((((((((( BST, Braxiss and Amberstar )))))))))))))))

Thank you!

[martok2112]

What can I say that probably has not already been said?

What can I express that is unique to what everyone else feels, while synonymous with the collective?

Muffit...you are blessed with the muse 24/7 it seems.

Thy thoughts are as deep as eternity is unending.

Thy wit is as sharp as the blade fresh from the wheel.

Thy soul is that of a warrior.

Thy heart, that of a poet.

Thy inspiration is a fathomless well from which all draw upon.

(((((((((((((((((((((((((((MUFFIT))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))




With deepest affection and admiration from an unworthy Klingon,
Martok2112