Second Star to the Right, and Straight on till Morning....

Between the darkness and the dawn

between the morning and the night

between the moment I was born

until there’s no more will to fight

between my youth and middle age

— or just a little past that stage—

amid the chaos and the calm

I reflect who I’ve become.

Amid life’s trials and its struggles

any pain of yesterday

all the joy and the smiles

and the many roles I’ve played,

I know each road that I have journeyed

every hill and every turn,

all the detours that I’ve followed,

each new pathway that's been learned;

all the potholes and the pitfalls

yeah, there’s surely been a few—

but any road that I have travelled

would be poorer without you.

©Ginny Brannan 2017

Day 15, the halfway point... suggestion: to write a poem that reflects on the nature of being in the middle of something. The poem could be about being on a journey and stopping for a break, or the gap between something half-done and all-done. Let your mind wander into the middle distance, betwixt the beginning of things and the end.