So This Is What It's Like Poem by Jim Boone

So This Is What It's Like

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The parting words of the dying
As Eternity flashes in their mind's eye

Each time sex, lust and loving adds a
New dimension to physicality

Being on your own causes a celebration
Of the senses as imagined bondage
Of parental restraints breaks away

The first time you do anything that
Announces your natural instincts
And your Path through Life becomes
Clearer, a bit unsettling with do or die reality
As Joy, sadness, choices, fear, bravery
Bring light and darkness to each step we take

When ‘do unto others' becomes more meaningful
With each opportunity to give and receive
And that confirmation of ‘it's better to give'
Does a run over the strings of our senses
That adds meaning and depth to the living

When old lessons sink in and we finally get it
And better yet, practice what others teach

To survive again and again; to thrive
When we least expect it; to talk to God
And Jesus with one name - ‘Lord' -
With one intent - to be the best that
We can, to the good of all concerned.

Being here, with you, sharing and caring,
Loving and laughing, lifting up and holding onto,
As we learn and teach with our own, in our own
Master Class: dismissed, called to order.
So this is what it's like. Cool. Amen.

2012

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The title is a line from a book I am reading. The rest happened very fast...10-minutes. I had received official notification the day
before that I was not THE US Poet Laureate for 2012/2013. No surprise (to me) at all.
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Jim Boone

Jim Boone

McKinney, Texas
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