Life Lessons

  Life is full of cuts
And barbs and pricks and dings
Fire rages beneath the crucible-
My body
In this world of “things”

When my Maker brings the heat
I feel the sting
He smelts the silver of my soul
To reveal weaknesses
Adversity holds

Dross rises to the silver’s surface
There for me to scrape away
Or let sink back into my essence
To rise and mar another day

Life’s fiery lessons
Are but beauty on the journey
A gift,
My blessing…

-DeRicki

Reflections of Me

I am a mortal coil –

A strange loop speeding through

The warp and woof of life.

This mortal coil

Frets and toils to plant his seed

Within the soil –

Then waits to see what grows.

When I search the world for signs of me

This is what I see…

Things that I take care of

And things that take care of me.

After half a century on this earth,

What do I have to show?

The only things that seem to grow…

Are the things that I don’t know.

-DeRicki Johnson