Gliding on the winds of change Holding fast to every dream The person that I used be Has changed so much, it seems Time has made me what I am Every place that I have been Has etched it's image on my mind And sometimes I return again The universe unfurls to me In it's beauty and it's might As I travel through this life of mine Through the darkness into the light Some dreams have vanished in the mist Some never leave my heart I cannot explain or understand When did they ever start? What difference does it really make? I'm here just for a while And the sweetest treasure I can know Is traced upon your smile I've known warmth in deepest winter I've had sunshine when it rained I've won and lost and given up Only to start out fresh again I've said goodby more than I'd like Each departure so bittersweet But new beginnings wait for me To make my life complete The hugs, the laughter carry me To a place that I must go What destination can it be? Only God can really know Karen Shaw Matteson © 2002

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost

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