This Is Life…

I can’t wait to go to bed at night. The world is quite exhausting. ~Annie Lennox, British songbird

Oh, Annie, I couldn’t agree more.

Often, I pause, in the midst, and look at the throng of humanity that encircles me — this ever bustling collective that I’m a member of.

Scurrying to and fro, to and fro in a flurry of motion. We’re always in a hurry to get somewhere, anywhere, nowhere.

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And I cannot wait to be unstirred and enveloped in a soundless void, me, myself, and I where I blissfully E-X-H-A-L-E into the whispering hush of twilight.

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And dream a childish dream of lying in a cheerful field of daisies, all eagerly stretching their petals up, up, up to touch the fabric of the soft, blue sky.

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And for the briefest intermission I’m not fiery, I’m not discontent, I’m not “blue.” I’m nothing.

And I enjoy this respite before I must crawl back into the light of another dawn with its frenzied to and fro; its infinite grind up the cliffs of life; its unbroken demands for my attention; and its outcries of woe, woe, woe.

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3 thoughts on “This Is Life…”

  1. My stillness comes when I lay me down to sleep, turn out the lights and my upstairs neighbor goes to to sleep and stop tramping across her floor. I anxiously look forward to be lost in my dreams and somewhat very sad when I awake and realized they are just dreams. So I go to and fro doing the same things that I did the day before because I know relief would come when I turn out the lights, go to sleep and pray that God will let my upstairs neighbor be quiet tonight.

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