Wild Journey

LInking with Imaginary Gardens for the Tuesday Platform brought to us by Sanaa

and The Sunday Muse

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!  ~Mark Twain

It has been a wild journey

 and my soul has weathered many a storm

but my heart lost the sturdy umbrella

a long time ago

this makes for a sloppy passage

and wet shoes

I used to leap over puddles with ease

but now I tend to 

wade through slowly

like a used jalopy bus

in the rain

I don't mind a little mud

just give me somewhere warm

to dry my socks

and take a load off with friends of a feather

and I am happy

there is a luxury a mature heart knows

the comfort of knowing not to rush

and of course the wild journey of the past

has given us bad knees. 

Tread the City with an Open Heart

Linking with The Sunday Muse for our first picture prompt.

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Also linking with Imaginary Gardens for "The Tuesday Platform"

The heart carries loads that the hands cannot. ~Matshona Dhliwayo

Give your heart to a sailor it may get lost at sea

Takes a wild soul to do such things

But hoard your heart like a bitter old coot

May be stealing your own joyous loot

Takes a wise heart to see it clear

That being a giver makes for richer years

Those that are takers and hold on tight

End up weary from such wasted might

So tread the city with an open heart

That is when angel’s blessings soon impart