I Once Smiled Let Me Tell You About It! Poem by Mark Chavez

I look through the window as we drive a measly 45

I am lost in my world of wandering thoughts

They come into my mind faster then we are passin the beautiful scenary

I watch as a bird mindlessly flies over head with out a care in the world

This small but very free bird is exactly wut i want to be

I look through the glass and out to the beauty that lays before my eyez

It is so close but in actuality too far

Reality would say just stop and enjoy the scenary

But i dont stop because stopping would mean attachment

I feel if i am attached i can be hurt and i dont want to feel that pain

Then it happens

We slow and everything seems to slow with us...its snowing

The snow is perfect weather for my my life,

Snow it masks like a blanket, you kno there is something underneath

But have no clue wut that is...a layer of new is wut snow is

But a layer of new only masks the layer of old and that layer will surley show

Does it matter, of course not because to me life is the moment

As long as the moment is peaceful then

I can live life to the fullest and this is truly wut i love about life

The passing of the seasons like the changing of people as they grow old

I live for the moment because everything changes and thats life

From the flower which blossoms in the spring and wilts in the fall

To the people i kno and love which are there one day and gone the next

Those who pass u bye as though u are nothing when in the past u talkd for hrs

The ones which leave u behind and never look back

As though the memories were never made and the friendships were never here

Those who pass u by

And cant say hi

My view is live in the present because with life comes changes we cant stop

And with these changes is the coming of a different person

Like a insect, there comes change when a butterfly finally becomes

Live in the present because the past is not reality and the future is never certain!

This is the day when i learned never to frown because u never know wut might be in your life tomorrow to cheer you up...with life comes change is the lesson i learned...so smile its a wonderful thing!