Helens story - found on laptop
Created by Gillian, David and Katie 9 years ago
It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
Floating, almost impossible to hold for more than a instant
as it drifts by, unexpected on the breeze.
Resting by your shoulder and singing, then away again
when you try and grasp it.
Disappears as it chooses, moves on.
Nothing to chafe against as with pain, no anchor like misery,
no broken pieces of tragedy to clasp in your hands and rebuild.
Just the elation of life: the promise that you
will wake up each morning to a new
world of unending possibilities: hot coffee,
warm feet; loving even the darkest of corners
or the most neglected of hearts.
Yet around you it oozes out of your finger tips into
everything you touch, irresponsibly you share.
Into the small of backs or the creases
between fingers, straight through to the bone.
Credit is not taken by you, in the same way the sun takes no
credit for it’s warmth, or the moon for
the stars which we sit under on clear nights with a blanket and tea.
But still continue to hold and cherish them,
and in that way be cherished, too.