A string of lights
Light a frame
Like a show
A frame of a mirror
Mirroring a soul
And nothing else
Colored powder palettes with brushes
Brush the surface with dust
Just dust
It's a daily routine
Nothing you haven't seen
It's vanity
But on it lies a picture
Depicting a friend
Like a soul mate
A friend who made this masterpiece
Pieced together and created
This worthwhile vanity
I wanted to write again. I wanted to write about something meaningful, but sometimes my mind gets tangled in incomprehensible feelings. Words are lost in that web. Sometimes it's the simple things in life that we need to focus on. They have the potential to become metaphors. They become representations of the greater and deeper things of life.
ReplyDeleteI went away on a little road trip last week, and when I came back, I found my sister and friend had constructed a vanity table for our room. They did it as a surprise for me. Not until now, a week later, did I sit back and really look at it in a new way. It became a metaphor in my eyes. Within minutes, the words were back.
This is Ecclesiastes in the form of a vanity table. And God is our friend.
"I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat an drink and take pleasure in all his toil--this is God's gift to man." Ecclesiastes 3:10-13