Can One's Life be Like a Stone Falling to the Bottom of a Pool?

If I were to ask myself and look with dispassion at the passage of time

I might be disheartened to see how we age slowly through the years

Yet the thing that gives support and happiness to my recollection

would be the gratitude I've felt for having been here at at all

the many moments uncounted when care was far afield

form a balance with whatever may have let me feel betrayed

And so I grasp a certain bliss to have tasted of this life

Finding secret privilege in so much struggle, forgetting the ever present strife.

d'Agate copyright December 26, 2009 One*Off Press