In white writing
on black leather
I saw the warning
"Nothing lasts forever" -
something I have known all my life,
but recently more acutely than ever.

I have never been blind
to the fact that the universe
is constantly sending us all
messages and signs...
I have never been oblivious
to the fact that some things are created
and some people are
the way that they are
for reasons that might not become clear for a considerable amount of time.

Sometimes, people do not know
why they chose to make the choices
that they did at a particular moment...
sometimes, people can see
what is to come -
both the good and the bad -
and they decide to proceed anyway,
because we all know that life is
sometimes both scarier than a horror movie
and sometimes ridiculous
enough to make us laugh.

From the day that we are born,
the world changes around us...
from the time that we are grown
and we see, and we understand,  
that nothing and no one
is meant to be eternal,
we know that there will come
a day when life will go to great
lengths in order to teach us
all a lesson about what matters
when everything is said and done...
we all have to live the life
that was always meant for us.

From what I have seen,
and from what I have learned,
I would say to anyone who
still has no idea what
they are supposed to do
when it comes to making a decision -
whether seemingly insignificant,
or one that is life-changing -
never forget that we are
allowed to make mistakes,
and perhaps repeat the same mistakes over and again.
Why? Because whether we
want to believe it, or not,
each and every one of us is a mystery -
sometimes even to ourselves -
and sometimes the slow discovery
of who we are can make us all feel better
about the most random things in life
that we have accumulated, remembered,
and sometimes we pick out from
our individual internal memory tombola
that we revist from time to time.