Looking Back Ahead

When getting old means losing all
that life has ever offered you,
as all the trails are lonesome roads
to walk alone, the whole way through...

In journaling your life today,
when each new page looks like the last,
as each step plods that same old path,
it’s then you choose to walk the past.

When being here is nothing more
than just a struggle to survive,
re-living memories you love
is all that makes you feel alive.

It’s not because you’re giving up
without the will to carry on;
you just desire to see the one-
that part of you, already gone.

Or maybe you have caught a glimpse
of all that Heaven holds for you,
and now you search to find the curtain
God's prepared to let you through.

© Donna Lynn Eaton 2004