Patchwork - Echolyn

Gather, learn and listen

Grasp a piece of life and hold it

Mold it to your liking

And place it in the potter’s kiln

Lessons learned in church and school

Help shape the growing child

Tall tales, fables, folklore

Place perspective on today

Taste the timbre

Watch it’s phrases arching

Tells a story of my own

Breathing patchwork

Tangent lines that cadence

Palms and songs depict my lifeline

Stories have been gathered

For those who crave for something more

Lessons for a future

In what we learn and earn today

Others learn to capture

The themes they heard upon the page

Scores of scores of textbooks

Serve as my soul’s family tree

My life revolves in dreams which evolve through foresight

I’d achieve, and while the sounds of those around me

Is silent at times, I forge ahead

Directed by where I want to go

I too demand a focus

Yet from within reside benign

And thank all those who strive to reach

More than one’s arm-length allows

Gather, learn, and listen

Grasp a piece of life and hold it

Listen to it’s spirit

And send it on it’s way