The Journey..

I wrote this for my sister, Greta, a few years ago. I have thought about it alot lately. At the time she was going through alot and this came to me in a dream about her. So it is with a bit of Deja Vu that I see myself on this journey now..

THE JOURNEY

I take this journey with uncertain steps,

though sometimes I just want to run!

Never too sure which way to turn,

or where I'll end up when it's done.

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I look back thinking we've come so far,

yet the road ahead looks longer.

At times it seems too far to go,

& I wish I were a little younger!

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Too often I feel I am on my own,

and the weight I carry too great.

Or everyone else is so far ahead,

they can't hear my call to "wait!"

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How much farther must I go?

Does it matter my body aches?

This can't be the journey meant for me,

it must be some mistake.

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Yet in the quiet that comes with night,

when all is said and done,

this journey is what I make of it,

almost over, or just begun..

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mjs 9/22/02