[net.poems] The Doors of Life

mhauck@ihuxk.UUCP (M.J.Hauck) (11/09/84)

The Doors of Life 10/9/84 and 11/9/84

Is life like a door?
To open it we don't know what we'll find
To close it we have lost what is behind
But what would life be without doors?
No windows to look through and see.

Open onto-onto new and different experiences
Close behind what we were, are, will be.
How strange, to find the doors surrounding us
We make our choices blind, but we must chose
A cliche says, the Lady or the Tiger

One can chose to walk the corridor, ignore the doors
But what life is that? Taking no chances
I want to live life full, opening every door
Run in to the next and next room.
In to the jaws of living and dying

Mary Hauck on a rainy Friday