How Many?

How many times have I listened to rain-drops and not told the stories
they sung?
And how many tears have I seen in others eyes just to forget the stories
they begun?

Caught up in a rat-race in the savage chase of the almighty profit
Did I forget my true calling to the penny's caterwauling?
Shit! Tell me, where along the way that I dropped it.

Awakened as if asleep in a dream that I haven't really liked from the start
Is the truth I forgot that who I truly an isn't as
important as the truth's I must impart..

So much like Rumpelstiltskin who dozed in the shade
to awaken so many years hence.
To find life doesn't give back what is taken, in fact time
takes more with no thought of recompense..

How many rain-bows gave such color and splendor
while I saw only black and white?
What battles were fought and destinies sought that I didn't
save for all time?

What a shame for me to claim I paid attention to the game
When the truth is I fell by the wayside
Now I know where I failed and new wind fills my sails I shall sail
on the next coming tide.
Chris/Dana Point CA/ 6-15-12