Chapters Poem by Jim Yerman

Everyone we meet whether a cause of joy or sorrow or strife
writes another chapter into our book of life.

I met Phil and Lee when they were in their eighties.
They were one of the sweetest couples I've ever met
and though they both died long ago…their's is a chapter I'll never forget.

I thought about them yesterday…my good friends Phil and Lee
a thought triggered by a song…as that is the wonder of memory.

I immediately stopped what I was doing…stopped by their memory
and flipped back through my book of life…to read the chapter on Phil and Lee.

And though, as I get older, the writing sometimes seems a little blurred
when I found the chapter on Phil and Lee…I savored every word.

I found that as I read this chapter from a distance…from afar
It was filled mostly with joy…but with a touch of sorrow…
as I'm sure most chapters are.

Is that not the beauty of each chapter in our book of life
whether we search them out…or something random generates a thought
for the moment we revisit them……we revisit all the feelings that they brought?

I have a wish for everyone as this current chapte's being written
as we watch our country bleed…
Take a moment every now an then to leaf through your book of life
and find a chapter you'd like to read.

Your own chapter…your own pages
find your own Phil and Lee
To remind you not only of a happier time…
but also how all chapters end…eventually.

And to remind you there is a balance in these moments that we share
for as friends and family write a chapter in our life…
we are writing one in theirs.