How Will I Know Which Way to Go

April 16, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is aging: the changes in perspective, health, wisdom, and satisfaction.

Today’s poem is about how aging can help answer some ultimate questions.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How will I know which way to go,

Which way to go, which way to go?

When I go which way I will

And, lost, bow to the wind.

How will I know the reason why,

The reason why, the reason why?

When death unrolls the tapestry

And I see well its grace.

How will I know my time has come,

My time has come, my time has come?

When the melody is gone

And my good friends are home.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/howwill.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Aging.

April 11: Seventy-Four

April 12: Adages of Age

April 13: Sixty-Five

April 14: Melissa

April 15: Seventy-Two

April 16: How Will I Know Which Way to Go