My Life By Design Poem by Antonia Nasi

I dreamt in deep, dark misery
Of life, my mess...this travesty

A hole that deepens from within,
Of goals not met and worldly sin

As time goes by and friends un-made
The best of plans erased, un-laid

Now thirty-something seems so old,
To listen to advice I'm told

Of how to make a world for me,
To paint a landscape I can see

Of colors bright and bold and mine,
A life my own, that I design