HOW DID I GET HERE?

~~~For this moment, I ask you all to pause; taking a look back, appreciating the changes and growths you have encountered and endured as we all look forward to sequestering our  present hopes and dreams to the optimum level of our lifetime. Love, Respect, and Honor to you all~~~~

I feel the strokes across my brows, but not too heavy of a load that weighs across my mind. I sit and think, pondering- how did I get here? Just within the yesterdays, I had my youth, sparkles and shiny vestures- filled with hopes and dreams imparting my futurist life to live.

It was what it was, so beautiful and yet, there were sometime shadows; but the sweet breaths of life taught me to exhale; and they would vanish, like a puff of smoke my shadows would be gone. Do you remember, as you close your eyes allowing the moments of yesteryears to replay, just for awhile?

Smiles and laughter looking back at a bride of 21, full of life long dreams along with anxiousness, considering all the approaching moments, hours, and days of life portrayed so enchantingly. Years and years utilizing blessings and fulfillment- showers of nurturing rain and the blossoming of little ones upon my breast. No, I dare not wish for days past and gone- but cherishing the thoughts and feelings of yesterday that helped push me on…..

Still, the richness of never forgotten days, stopped, rewind, and set on play, gently cradles my mind. No longer the dreams of a heart unlived, but one that loved unto life, seeking its real treasures. By remembering where I’ve been uncovers where I need to now go forth, hurdling unto a charge I have- to live beyond the days of no return.

I’m walking on, kissed with sunshine being kept by the Most High. I’ll make it through- even along the tracks of life, bit by bit, I’ll reach my appointed destiny; loving the wind in my hair, the breezes upon my flustered face, surviving whatever crosses my path. I’m stronger than what appears, though derailments and many trains whisk by. I’m left on my own, but not really alone.

Straight ahead my feet keep traveling on, trying to keep an upbeat rhythm as I persevere through weary days and cumbersome nights; for there are days coming, I’ll rest. When morning breaks, I’ll awaken unto peace within myself.

Then befalls my joy, sweeping treasures upon the tracks. I’ll smile, and I’ll know just how I got here.