Pages, Phases and Paragraphs
When time solicits the mind to reflect upon your life,
mentally thumb through the pages and
browse from childhood to maturity.

Scan the infatuations, the crushes and true loves,
first job, bad times, til’ days of bright circumstance.
View the images of change and how you turned each page,
sometimes with great pain.

Phases, hairstyles, clothes, attitudes,
fads, collections of friends—
like an old movie, the names and players fade.

Phases are fuzzy. Slowly your mind flashes, the paragraphs,
the feelings and deep secrets that have touched and
made statements in our lives, but not enough to demand a page.

So, as with any book, between the covers of life,
lay page, phase, and paragraph, only to be read alone,
by yourself.....................