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My Space In History

July 12, 2010
By jujubee8597 BRONZE, Newton, Massachusetts
jujubee8597 BRONZE, Newton, Massachusetts
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I sit here
In my own space
In time.

My life
So short on
The time-line of all existence.

I may not
Be remembered
Later in history.

After I die
New beginnings begin
New lives and new memories.

My life
Only affects those who I meet
On my journey.

Who knows
Who I will meet
Whose paths I will cross.

The only way
For one to be happy
Is to live in the moment.

Be happy I am
Wherever I am
And wherever I will go.

Don’t dwell on the past
Or think about the future
And try to control fate.

Fate will bring us
Exactly where we need to be
And need to go.

Just accept the unknown
Needs to stay unknown
Until fate decides it time.

Just accept that fate
Knows us better
Than we know ourselves.

Knows where we will go in life
Our tragedies and our victories
And all we need to do,

Is just be.


The author's comments:
I got the idea for this piece, just thinking about my life and where it stood on the bigger picture of things. It is so short when you think about it. Time goes on forever. And we only get to experience such a small part of it. But as long as we don't take it for granted, it could be wonderful. However, it is funny because I can think of another poem that I could write talking about the exact opposite of what I was writing about. Saying that we need to control our own fate and not just wait on the world to bring us places. But in a sense, it would be fate for us to realize that we need to change our own fate. So it is kind of confusing when you think about it like that. But I still agree understand why somebody might have another point of view on the subject. And maybe even I don't want to accept that fate decides where we go, and I still don't even know if that's true.

<3j

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