# The Tale of a Life

Author: Alexos Drausus
Tags: Poem, Poetry

The tale of a life  
 Is a path never straight  
 Wandering branches  
 Always in the way  
  
 Congealed emotions  
 Are the colours portrayed  
 The trees grow ever higher  
 With the successes of life made  
  
 Tragic, it is  
 That the reward is so glum  
 To sleep forever onward  
 On a bed of cold mud  
  
 Though the hard work  
 Is not forgotten  
 The trees stand tall  
 Swaying in the breeze  
 Leaves telling all  
  
 That a man has worked hard  
 And never gave up  
 His memory lives forever  
 In the hearts  
 Of all he touched

Though others tales are touched  
 In a multitude of separate ways  
 Some will accept, while others will not  
 That a man has now passed  
 His fire is all done  
  
 Regrets are the weeds  
 That cluster in these tales  
 Unwanted but always clutching  
 To the life they suck away  
  
 Throw away these weeds  
 They are not beautiful flowers  
 They hold you back  
 And taint your pure heart  
  
 The tale of a life  
 Is one full of sorrow  
 Of hard work and sacrifice  
 But rewarding none the less  
  
 When the tale ends  
 Do not despair  
 The life is now at rest  
 Forever in the air  
  
 Rejoice that the journey  
 Is completed and done  
 Now a new one begins  
 I wonder what this one has to come?

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