Echos and Reflections

Echos and Reflections

The past and the future

are walls we each build

around ourselves trying

to keep warm, dry and happy.

Now, all men are short

when compared to time

and so our only roof

is always Natures own sky.

Talking to the past behind us

we hear only an echo

of where we are right now.

On the wall ahead of us

we put a mirror.

Looking to the future,

once again we only see

a reflection of what

our hopes and fears

are right now.

We plan for the future

based on the echos

we hear from the past

forgetting that the only

time we ever really have

long or short,

is right here and now.

The walls we've built

won't keep out stormy weather

but we all ought to know

beyond trouble forever follows

good times because the sky

is filled with starlight

on clear nights,

and we can always find sunshine

when comes passing

the blue sky day.

Take care that you don't

spend so much time

looking at reflections

and hearing echos

that you forget to notice

today because that's

the only place

you and the sky

ever really are.

Remember that

if you allow yourself,

you can touch paradise

even in the worst of storms

and if you obsess too much

with echos and reflections

you'll miss knowing joy

even on the brightest of days.

Dewey Dirks