this was your one

this was your one

for happiness and light

to enter your life

for Garden Eden to

take over the battlefield

of your soul your being

to water the plants and

the pond big enough

to swim in fish and men

this was your one

for love and hope to

take over the desperate

veil behind which: pain

and fear and bitterness

of course nobody needs

to take a chance and

some chances might even

return there is never destiny

there is never your one chance

your last chance your only chance

there is only life always only

this was your one

for love and happiness

and hope and light and

the possibility to swim

in an endless ocean of

what can happen if you

are open enough to embrace

the waves of life entering

your fenced in backyard

then again: a butterfly once

was and she taught me

that in the end it does not

even matter if you take

any chance at all because

life goes on and always is 

© Susanne Becker