March 18, 2016

HOW  LIFE  HAPPENS

Not the way we expected.

Yet, sometimes it does.

And sometimes that is unexpected.

Autumn leaves scream out, "It’s autumn."

Spring flowers burst! But then it snows.

The phone rings. Total surprise call....

We change plans. We have a Saturday to remember.

It’s a girl. We were expecting a boy!

The kid can sing. Where did that come from?

So and so marries so and so. Surprise!

Time ticks. Lots of the normal stuff happens....

Then we hear so and so is cheating on so and so.

Bummer - and the affair changes everything.

Everything.

The wedding ring comes off....

The wedding album is thrown out....

Sometimes life is a bummer.

Sometimes tires go flat.

Sometimes someone gets God out of nowhere.

Good thing - because then the next arrives.

Cancer….

Life happens - and "Uh oh’s!" are uttered.

"Now what?" - is the next mutter.

There will be a next.

That we know.

That's how life happens.

It does.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016