Like roller coasters
The thrill comes
In the wait
Once you’re riding
It goes past
So fast that
You lose breath
Just like life
Looking down on
You from baby
Heaven you were
Excited and waiting
Now here most
Of us ride
The life ride
With eyes closed
Praying for a
Very quick end
To these things
Keep eyes open
Making your memories
Being one thing
Is one thing
Being another is
Often very scary
But change is
Very stable like
Water to ice
However before you
Can be something
Else you must
Exhaust the first
That’s where the
Pain lies once
You’ve become the
Something else life
Does get easier
After the storms
Of you swept
Through soaking everything
And uprooting even
My oldest oaks
The sun broke
Free I’m following
It across the
Sky rather than
Chasing you and
Your silly rainbows
Sometimes life is
Like inhaling frigid
Air during Chicago
Winters painful choking
And eye opening
Other times it’s
Like the balmy
Honolulu ocean breezes
Filled with sun
Others it’s stale
Under blanket air
Heavy and stifling
Take deep breaths
Often for with
Each breathing life
I sit and
Wind wind winding
Knowing that soon
You will pop
Up surprising me
No matter how
Many times I
Push you down
I am childish
But you are
The clown that
Makes me laugh
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 