Black Poetry : Puzzle Pieces (from Things on My Mind)

Heartbeat

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Open the box
Call it life
A thousand puzzle pieces
Fall out on the table
Put them all together
If you're patient
If you're able

Do you stand?
Do you sit?
Isn't it a trip?
Making life's puzzle pieces fit

Don't want this piece
Don't want that piece
Which ones to select
Which ones connect
Such a confusing mixture
Trying to put together
Your own personal picture

Soon clarity increases
A dwindling number of puzzle pieces
Was it painful?
Was it fun?
Were the puzzle pieces truthful
Now that the picture is almost done

See your life in a thousand pieces
Put together by space and time
How will you react
When you discover
The picture you made
Is oh so different
Than what's on the box cover

BE

(c) Bruce H. Edwards, 2000
 
nice...

aNALoGYs.
luv the way u placed life's
pieces on a table
and a lot of people ain't able to put it
t o g e t h e r
might be better apart
but from the start we should be told these
t
h
i
n
g
s
so we won't expect the life
projected from the tv screen

thanx for the lines poet. gave me a new perspective
for today.
holla.
 
working dem millions of pieces

not same as box coz i choose it dis way
som' fit
som' a misfit
som' is right
dis one wrong
singing a sad song
do i belong
working it from flight
day & night
dis box of life is a mutha !
heartbeat man u put a puzzle of reality together
and showing me life's meannings ......well done !:D
 
BE

this is a great piece...so true too...

we learn as we grow...but personally I think "growing up" is a myth..what exactly does it mean..because I learn something every day so I'm not all growed up yet...and you're so right about the picture never quite fitting the one we started with in our mind..guess thats life but huh...

K
 

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