BEGINNING TO AN END

                                                                                   
          BEGINNING TO AN END    


 I had walked the streets in a certain town,    


 For so many years, familiar faces and sounds.    


 Everything I did, all that I knew very comfortable, 


 It was my home but now it has gone and ended indeed.


 Once again in life this is my new beginning, strange 
 It is,

 I feel lost, a strange place with faces unknown to me.


 Street names are just that, only names but not 
 Recognized,

 Strangers are only people who have not yet become 
 Friends.

 My new home has neighbors who have not yet become known,


 Street names I will memorize so I will not get lost and 
 All alone.

 I like my new yard, yesterday has made many a change,


 I now have a spot where I can be alone, I hide from the 
 Insane.

 There is life that traveled with me, some that I have 
 Left behind,

 I swim in a pool, this is my new day, I heard some new 
 Voices, walk a new way.

 I'm an inch away from heaven, a lifetime from where I 
 Belong,

 I can hear my father calling me, In my head there is 
 Always a song.

 Beginning to an end, the world is for us not to really 
 Understand,

 I am here where I am, this is my new beginning, I am 
 Where I stand.
                 Keith Garrett
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2 thoughts on “BEGINNING TO AN END

  1. I am here where I am, this is my new beginning, I am
    Where I stand.

    After 4 hospital stays last 2 months for congestive heart eat failure and an aortic valve replacement operation last week I am very introspective. I’m 73 and this all seems like an apotheosis for a new beginning, I will try to be conscious of this feeling as I enter the next phase of my life as I feel I had a new birth and new entry to life. This line summarizes just how I’m feeling now.

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