The Change I Want To See

Change is indefinite
Yet unexpendable we remain
Cigarette ashes
A warm pot of coffee
What more is there to sustain
Days are random
Life is detailed, severely 

Like old men on faltering days 
These are the things you ask of me
Like child hood friends 
Remember me?
This is the most I can do for you 
Like the rain that pours 
May never touch the same place twice
Then again, there is that possibility
The reality of this state of being 
Nothing is all that it will ever be

And sometimes you learn to look at things
As if they are to get no better 
Like single mothers on the first days of January 
A hymn for the things you’d love to change
A prayer for the things you cannot

"acceptance of what we cannot change"
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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August 23, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Jerry - Very insightful and well written poem - very philosophical - great job - God Bless
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