Wednesday, October 10, 2018

A Box of Beads

A box of beads,
Different colors, shapes and sizes,
Rolling around but
Confined to the container.

Randomly bouncing
Off each other.
No pattern emerging,
Emitting a noisy clatter.

Is that life?
Isolated, differing events
Kept together only by the confines
Of birth and death.

Or are those events
Strung together in a pattern,
Held by the invisible cord,
Of a world view.

I grieve for those I see,
Living scattered lives,
Empty-headed, hazy,
Thoughtless lives.

When they bounce off
The final edge of the box,
Will they look back on 
A life of unstrung beads?



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