Turning 21 Again?

Turning 21 Again?

          Masnoh Wilson

Where does one begin,

To tell a life story?

Do you start at twenty and one again?

Does one's life begin at a moment of epiphany?

Or does one’s life begin at one’s birth?

Does a life story begin when you’ve found

That one for whom your soul craves?

Or does it begin at a graduation, an engagement,

Or a wedding?

Does it begin at the birth of a child?

At the start of a new job,

Or at the loss of a loved one?

Or yet still, does it begin

At starting over after a divorce

Or at a marriage with someone new,
Or even after the kids are grown?

Forever 21 we can always be

For as life goes on, so do we…

Forgetting those things which are behind

And always moving forward, upward

Embracing life, like the billowing tide

Of an ocean wave

That engulfs and covers everything in sight

That passion and fire that once burned within

For people and places and things we love

Is never quenched, nor dulled or smothered…

So then 21 could we always be,

Again, and  again and again... maybe?