Just stopped in to say hello.
Mi
Amor. You remembered me.
Always.
Got the opening to a new poem about ripples in a pond and
how events in life are set in motion by things sometimes beyond our
control.
It goes like this.
A soldier dies.
A widow grieves
And seeks a new beginning.
I can’t seem to get to the next stanza.
You see, if the soldier lives, I don’t exist.
The ripples on that pond never happened.
The soldier was my grandfather, who died in Abbeville,
France five days before the end of World War I.
The widow who grieves is my grandmother who leaves Scotland
as a result of his death and comes first to Canada and then to the United
States. His death sets that in motion.
If he lives, she stays and all that followed is swept
away. I don’t exist and all that I’ve
done and everything that flowed out from that is gone. We never met and all that flowed out from
that doesn’t happen either.
The next stanza as I wrote it is …
A sniper chooses.
One goes home, while
An island grave is the other’s ending.
But it doesn’t really fit.
At least that is my feeling.
Will work on the puzzle.
Got a tune for you today … enjoy.
Gerry Rafferty: Get It Right Next Time
Out on the street I was talkin’ to a man
He said "there’s so much of this life of mine that I
don’t understand"
You shouldn’t worry yes that ain’t no crime
Cause if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time
(next time).
You need direction, yeah you need a name
When you’re standing in the crossroads every highway looks
the same
After a while you can recognize the signs
So if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time (next
time).
Life is a liar yeah life is a cheat
It’ll lead you on and pull the ground from underneath your
feet
No use complainin’, don’t you worry, don’t you whine
Cause if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time
(next time).
You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes
You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake
When you believe there’s no mountain you can climb
And if you get it wrong you’ll get it right next time (next
time).
Next time, hmmmmm
