Shine On

And the moon did shine

It's company a great comfort

It was there the day I arrived on this Earth

And I'm grateful for it's return 46 years to the day

It's been a long haul, this last year it seems

So many big lessons in life

So much joy and also, there was pain

Emotions do not define the whole of me though

and my emotions that rise and fall like the tides

Are as much a creation in my life as everything else

So what then will this next year hold

I don't know, I just don't know

But I'm grateful that it does not hold the past

From there I have come and gone

And now I stand here in this moment

Under the stars, gazing at my friend the moon

Oh the secrets I've told the moon

A treasured friend who won't ever tell them

It'll just shine back at me and remind me to do the same

Shine on...yeah...~sigh~

(c) 2012 Jaie Hart (photo/words)