Hear the music as you walk the boardwalk, <br />also hearing those around you, chatter, and talk. <br />The breeze off the ocean is cool and gusty, <br />The nails in the deck are just tad rusty. <br />The railings are salty and cold to the touch, <br />How often we don't really think of such. <br />The waves are rough coming into the shore, <br />walk down futher, just a little further more. <br />The winds get harder, you pull your sweater tight, <br />Walking ever so slowly, taking it all in, every sight. <br />Brother sun is setting in the western sky, <br />soon he will be saying good night and good-bye. <br />The sounds of joy surround you as you walk alone, <br />children laughing and eating ice-cream cones. <br />You take a journey down in the past, <br />into times that you thought would always last. <br />Life is journey you have looked back on many times, <br />Some memories sweet as sugar, some, sour as limes. <br />But right now, your just leaning on the railing, thinking about the past. <br />Realizing how nothing lasts. <br />How bless you've been, and how the journey ahead is still long, <br />Now your relating the boardwalks playing song. <br />Journying to the future, to see what you can, <br />will the things around you fall or stand? <br />You hold up your head and the wind on your face, <br />this is your solitude moment, this is your special place. <br />Smile, the future holds mysteries, not yet discovered... <br />From things in the past, you have already recovered. <br />Live forward in time, only look back to learn, <br />We all face these moments, we all take our turns. <br /> <br />By Kathryn Brookins<br /><br />Kathryn Brookins<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/taking-a-walk-2/
