

| Theses are my thoughts and ramblings as I forge my way through this thing they call life. | 
| These are my thoughts and ramblings as I forge my way through this thing they call Life. I blog with these groups: ![Welcome to my Reality Banner  [#1967457]
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| Blog City - Day 1647 Prompt: Write a Blog entry about a Hope Chest. Hope springs eternal A chest of hopes bound for the future Holding dreams Young women giving way To expectations And the romantic notions of love. But my hopes never really followed That course... no matter that I tried To do the expected, But my heart was not so fully tamed. I dreamt of more Of a life free to follow my dreams Where words tumbled forth Without the demands of household chores Or hungry children Or a husband whose own expectations Tried to define our life together. I followed and failed... But now, after all this time I am on my own again I can listen to my own heart strings And I hear a symphony with its own cadence Its own calling lure That pulls me Bound to a different trajectory That is not defined or directed by others But by my own longings And hopes for the future. |