Stephen Kilmer Poet Narrative

To Live This Life

To Live this Life

Inertia it is something we can’t stop once put into motion.  It has a destiny unless abruptly stopped.  But to let it linger on in it’s own way has a way of causing extraordinary consequences.  If we let it take it’s own course it turns into fate.  I know you don’t believe that?  Think about a stream of water running through a dusty schoolyard started by a forgotten hose.  It has the potential to start a lot of things.  Some good, some not so good. But it is inertia.  To flow the constant need to go to ground.  It doesn’t think about it it just does.  It could care less about the consequences of it actions it is not thinking.  It is working from the laws of nature and those laws seem to be steadfast and strong.  There is a mean time between failure on every thing…. including us.  The laws of nature apply.  A tree in the forest will crack and fall given a certain age and density and no one will notice.  Your mind will give out before your bones and someone will notice.  It’s ok.  There is a design for watching it and it places us where we need to be.  Some of us in the pines other’s along the sea and yet others in the high mountains.  Places we yearned to be.  Some will call it God others Mother Nature but whatever you call it call it home.  For we must all come home to meet our maker and on that day we will grin for life has given us what we never knew we had inside.  And it will be a peaceful day to lay under the shade trees on the other side of the river and know you have lived a life in this wonderful world.  They say some of us come back we shall see.  To live once is a blessing to live twice is a chance to make a difference.

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Funom Makama May 27, 2015 at 7:05 AM excellent piece. returning after a while to read such a refreshing package full of familiar emotions to the mind is simply blissful. A wonderful and commanding 7 here. Keep on writing.

Laura Breidenthal May 23, 2015 at 3:13 AM I read this a while ago and had no words for it... stunning piece of writing!!!! "For we must all come home to meet our maker and on that day we will grin for life has given us what we never new we had inside."this made me want to embrace the page.... its great to read this one again! Always, Laura Stephen Kilmer November 9, 2015 at 5:04 PM Laura, Your sensitivity is so keen. It delights me that you get it. Ah what a wonderful world. ~Kilmer~

Dorian Petersen Potter March 25, 2015 at 4:29 AM Excellent pen Stephen! I enjoyed your nice narrative piece,dear friend. A 7 from me! Thank you for sharing it. Wishing you a very lovely day! In his light! God bless you! :-) D. Stephen Kilmer September 27, 2015 at 3:39 PM It has take me time time realize that I truly meant what I wrote in this piece for my life has been in turmoil. Looking back now I realize I was true to myself. Thank you. ~Kilmer~

Lionel Ledbetter March 24, 2015 at 8:29 PM Very reasonable thinking. God made it all, and works his will, "in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can say unto him - what do'est thou?" Stephen Kilmer September 27, 2015 at 3:42 PM God does listen and there is always a second chance to make it right.