The Line

Sometimes a line comes along, From nowhere, or Anywhere, or Everywhere; It's just there Going into your head, Like the blueprint of your soul Has been read. And it is good -so good- to you. You feel you must share it With the entire world, through and through. So you work and you try To find a way With wise words This line to say; Wrestle with your intellect As you might, Work on it Day and night. Still, the written words just are not there; And, you begin to wonder does it matter? Would anyone, anyhow truly care? So, you put it away In the darkness of the mind, Out of touch And out of time. The moments and seasons Drift ever along, To here and to there On and on. As life has a way of pounding And dragging with a mix of wonder and drear, Day unto day Year after year; Season upon season... Until, for some unseen reason You one day come to realize It's still there... In your soul, somewhere. That beautiful old verse From way back when, So you seek it out Once again. Ponder and ponder through the mind Search and search, look and look Until you find The nearly forgotten words Of this fantastic old line. When once more thought It still lays open the soul so bare, And gives cause again to wonder Now, would-could anyone care? Yet, with age comes shifting perspective Thereby giving cause to think: Does it truly matter anymore? For is that- was that ever- What the line Was given for? Soon your spirit soars Whistling, to yourself, the old familiar score, A time... or two... As here again it has its mystic effect upon you, Its movement, its passion Its wonderful sense of sweet satisfaction; The places it takes you In your heart and mind, Way back and way forward Throughout all time. As if a precious gift Given for none other, Your spirit alone to uplift Like the tender note of a fantastic old lover. Therefore you become quite aware Even if no one else ever cares, The line was never meant for the world. Rather, all along It's meaning to be known, Was always and only... For you alone. It was only with you Who could truly for it care, That God did so, the line Desire to share.