Wonder

While I wander through this life

And learn all I can learn,

The lessons I have faced this day

Leave my soul to yearn,

What meaning does this life have,

What plans are there for me?

Do I have a part in this

Like river mount or tree?

Is this life meant to sling us

Far to our immortal tress?

Or is this life meant to bind us all

Into happiness?

What meaning does the heart include

in this great plan divine?

What is my part, when is my day,

When am my love to find?

Or is this life intended,

To bring my love to pass

To share it with all those in need

As they wander past?

With hurt and pain, war and gain,

Being the only way

So many know of this life’s meaning

Surely brings us shame.

This life is meant to shape us

Into what we soon shall be

Eternal beings living same

as we here wish to be

Without the anger strife and fear

that this life has to offer

How can we be sure to survive it

without the need to suffer?

We can’t, we can’t, avoid these things,

It’s life’s lesson to crawl,

And progressing past the stars we see,

potential lies in all.

Kari Shinal-Copyright-Nov. 2006