My Friend Kim

I’d like to take a moment to wish all of my colleagues and friends a very special, prosperous, and happy New Year….  God bless you all and thank you for sharing life with me……    John

(Please click the play button below to follow along with me)

Within such beauty I should find,
by corners, depth, and width of mind…

The love we shared, that glorious bind,
so rare to know, this heaven’s kind.

And as I wonder of life’s sublime
and of nature’s boisterous crime

that all should fail in the wisp of time,
a moment, an eon, an erosion of kind….

Even the greatest mountain will frail,
and every comet shall lose its tail…

Time marches, a new crag prevails,
a star explodes, a born comet sails….

And of all the new I embrace by heart,
of the old I linger, reluctant to part

Somewhere between I find my soul,
A child really, spectator of old.

That thing we shared, a moment’s fold,
Nothing more now than a story told.

But beyond nature’s grasp I have found
a lasting truth of the greatest sound:

That every moment captured us,
and within them ……
our spirits shall dance forever.

And I will always smile.

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

© 2011 John Richter