Life Is The Alphabet Poem by Lonnie Hicks

All life is the alphabet
from that moment the 'A'
in Alpha
meets the 'O' in Omega,
there then conception.

The B is cell division
and the growth of life.

C rounded out mother's tummy;

D was the ninth month and she
was sleeping on her side

E is her reaching out
to take child in her arms.

F is child's my first wobbly step;

G parental pride
in those first words

H is the sturdy start
walking on our own two legs;

'I' is the sense at three
that in some things
'I 'is all alone.

J includes the teen years
jumping through lifes' hoops;

K's all involved being kind
and giving back and reaching out.

L is our middle name and
the ladders we climb from career
to the outer limits of true love.

M's are all about mother dear.

N is NO all the times I've said and didn't say
no to right or no to wrong

O is the endless circle many take
to see;
that all life returns and renews
if you make life your best work;
our monument.

P carries ambition's years
and pride all in the same mix;
denying mostly that happiness
which contents.

Q is Dad lying there
on that hospital bed his month open
and his tongue askew

R is that first sense of always returning
to places once passed through
and sometimes having to re-learn what we
thought we knew.

S is satiation with things old and new
and not feeling satisfied with some things-
sated with others;
still others subsummed under headings
now dim.

T is time spent sifting good memories
and old regrets
embedded in our sentiments;

U is for some things we wish could be undone.

V is for the Vex we feel
for all those mysteries
still unplumbed
despite our efforts.
These are birth, life, death and beyond.

W is the supplicant hands raised to all mystery;
to awe;
to Wonderment..

X is the unknown factor, which defies all to perceive.

Z Leaves us all zig-zagging
amid the plans we weave
to ends we do not-
and never can-
perceive.

Y is left out above
for it is the greatest of all mysteries
that which is The Truly Unknown
and Unseen.