Paths of Life

Walking along life’s crooked gardened paths Becomes more meaningful with time; First early steps to follow butterflies In bright sun with cheers to make rhymes Touching soft pink flowers feels heavenly Pink shoes; pink ice cream; pink dresses; Feeling “pink” is great along childhood’s path Little girls with bows in tresses Young boys prefer blue on pathway’s palette Various shades on trucks and sky While wild animals roam imaginations This blue pathway soon passes by Today, I think about these pathways of life— The blacks and reds of self expression Those paths wandered into bright new frontiers Where friends shared deepest confessions Now I am on a path of reality One previously untraveled Self-made dreams begin to fall all around Health-related thoughts unraveled Let pink Roses and blue Wisteria Border this path with white Hyacinth; As unfamiliar weeds crowd this pathway— Meandering through new labyrinth