Turning

Life runs its course

All so smooth and straight

Predictable from day to day

Then a turning.

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A parting of the ways,

A change in the way

Things no longer the same

In the blink of an eye.

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In sadness for the old

Looking to the joy of the new.

The prayers for the dead

Are for the living.

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Expectation change to the new

As the new sets

Up housekeeping

Not only in the heart,

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But in the house.

The new rearranges

And replaces the old

As it makes itself to home.

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The home shrinks then grows,

Animals come and go,

To better homes

Where love abounds.

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The chickens make eggs

The horse eats their hay

The hound howl at the moon

And I await my love.

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Though I made my deal,

And made my promise,

I will not expect

Any more than I will get.

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My life takes another turn

From the old

Into the new

One day at a time.

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Deal with the Devil

And you never win,

Deal with life

And you always die.

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Born into sin

Sentence to death,

Only Love can take you beyond,

A Love beyond understanding.

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A love that transients

Both the old and the new,

A Love that binds,

A Love that mends.

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A Love beyond the grave

A Love for the living

A living Love

That makes life worth living.

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Contentment is fleeting

By its very nature

But happiness is obtainable

And can last a lifetime.

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But happiness is not guaranteed

Just its pursuit, and in its pursuit

It may be found

By just following the path.

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From the old into the new

Day by day

One step at a time

Until the old becomes the new.

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And loss of contentment drive

Me from the complacent

To seek what may be found

And take my Love by her hand.

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Love is blind and hears

Not a harsh word

It sees no blemish

And finds no fault.

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It is happy in of itself

And needs not the object

Of it desires to thrive.

Hope is enough to keep it alive.

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Hope, the last of the Virtues

To die, and the first to resurrect.

Long suffering, it feed love

Through all famine.

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Hope shield Love from all abuse

Hope lets Love grow in the

Stoniest of grounds,

And Hope keeps Faith alive.

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Faith that the loved will reciprocate,

Faith that Love will bring happiness home,

Faith that the old will turn into the new,

And Love is forever renewed.

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Time move on

Turning the new into the old

Mixing and blinding

Love, Hope Faith, and Happiness.

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Different apportions

At different times

More Hope one time,

More Happiness another

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Sometimes despair

That the old will never become new

But then sometimes

A turning, and all things seem anew.

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Hope in its grave

Spring to life

Watering Love with its tears,

And unspoken sobs.

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Tomorrow will bring

What it will bring,

But today there was a turning.

A turning away from the old.

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Change is as eternal

As the same old, same old.

Change mixes and confuses

And spawns the new.

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Bringing new choices,

Forcing new decisions.

Change will leave you alone

For a while.

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I become complacent

Forbearing in fear

That it would never change,

And it may change back.

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Only the living will tell,

And the tell will be told

Day by day

Choice by choice by choice.

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Rexx