Love and Life and Both Sides Now

To live a life and change each day
to dream more often and replay
the life you want to live and say
that Life joins hands with Love, that’s true
in times there’s conflict and remorse
so set yourself a chartered course
from where you are and where you’re going

To realize you have a choice
that love and life both have a voice
to live a life that love demands
or leave a love that life commands

Suns and moons will dimly go
in the final afterglow
life will age as love decays
set your words to music and sing a song
there is somewhere you belong
weather the storm and dance with the wind
walk on fire with a wide mouthed grin
love is a fantasy you can rescind

to realize you have a choice
to question life and carry on
to speak of love as in despair
but in the end you do not care
to coin a phrase as Joni recalls
I really don’t know love at all

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Copyright © | Year Posted 2014



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Date: 8/13/2014 10:27:00 PM
Very insightful - full go good guidance.
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Date: 8/8/2014 8:57:00 AM
I'm so glad I stopped by, this is one of the best I have read for the contest. Did you not submit it? I have done that a few times. Either way you have ended up with an amazing piece.
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Date: 8/4/2014 5:18:00 PM
Hi Lucia: Thank you for your kind comments. I was a big fan of Joni Mitchell's songs and singing.
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Date: 8/3/2014 11:47:00 PM
This is good and I loved it. I wish you luck in the contest. Blessings... Lucilla
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Date: 7/30/2014 3:23:00 PM
that was pretty clever how you tied things up with the line by JOni. It was a beautiful song , wasn't it? And you certainly captured its essence.
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Ralph Sergi
Date: 7/30/2014 8:55:00 PM
Thanks Andrea: I was in her time and space and I especially liked Big Yellow Taxi
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