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Come stand with me on a wilder shore

Where age is no impediment to dreams

And life begins anew each dawn

When the Spirit whispers in your ear

 

We are not bound by illness

Or chained to time

But live with such a future in our hearts

Jealous death cannot contain it

Even if one day death will try

          Steven Charleston

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The road behind is long

It is a hot mess of twists and turns

and meanders up and down

into heights of joy

and into valleys of darkness

 

there are places

where the flotsam of failure

the rubble of shattered dreams

obliterate and obscure

 

looking back

there is pain and regret

at the wreckage

 

but joy too

for those times when I ran

wild and free

 

the road ahead

ah

I may believe

It goes ever on and on (Tolkien)

Stretching perhaps

Into eternity

 

But I am well into

This part of my journey

And I can see the end from here

 

And feel it too

 

And yet the way ahead is clear

If I choose

There are no impediments

 

Life begins again, and again

Each new morning

A little Easter

 

The old has passed away

Behold the new has come

 

There are so many little deaths

And there will be a death

A final breath

 

And yet life is irresistible

And the Spirit whispers in my ear

Live!

Live!

 

Joy comes with the morning

And this day

Is full of possibilities

And I am free

To go with God

 

Into the brightness