Assent
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When old and exhausted I pause to look back once more
a gesture of grace and acceptance of what was before
and no longer holds when letting go becomes easy to do
of everything left behind dismissing the what or the who.
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And what roads will open up as I look ahead in my travel
with an open mind when new things and places unravel
and decisions made in history no longer feed me regrets
creating the twist and turns in a life that easy forgets.
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What I leave behind doesn’t matter once I accept my fate
without the reflected shadows in the mirror that I hate
leaving behind all my shame of a life carelessly wasted
between the sweet and the sour that I willingly tasted.
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Now I prepare my departure to the place where I belong
teaching the ones which I love to be right or to be wrong
and to embrace with their faith a life like mine before
when old and exhausted I pause to look back once more.
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H.O. 1/23/15
From Cold to Fire 
This is truly wonderful, Hector! The last stanza pretty much says it all ❤
Thank you 🙂 and yes, it does
You’re welcome 🙂
This is stunning. Today is my oldest son’s 20 th bday. I keep goung back in time in my mind – back on the day he was born and the twenty years following. And what the road ahead holds…..;)
Thank you 🙂 Mine turned 20 last summer and always do the same, still think of her as my little girl 🙂 This poem reflects my uncertainties and fears as well as my acceptance of life as it is and will be.
Somehow this reminds me of a song that I will always feel like my father actually sang. He loved it as well, there is line in it that says “All I got here is a rear view mirror
Reflections of where Ive been
So you tell yourself Ill be back up on top some day
But you know theres nothing waiting up there for you anyway” while the lyric is sad, I always know my father used his rear view mirror for me, to look back and then use it to learn me somethin’. 🙂
Nice and beautiful
Nice to see it brough a good nemory. 🙂 thank you