Youth, flamboyant with emotion. In love with the clouds and the sun. The twenties full of love motion. Choosing profession on the run. Making the most important life decisions At that frail age without experience. Needing space and parent’s provisions. Excitement seeming like the deliverance.   Flamboyant metaphors losing power. The heart singing modest melodies. In face of life’s middle in flower. Silently approaching the fifties. Listening to the music of our youth. Trying to find meaning in our results. As you can never feed the sweet tooth. You can also never at fifty do...

Remembrances – The stinging tails of old happenings. Every little detail of my life’s history Gnawing at my soul.   Yet in the distance a shimmering light – Full of warmth and utterly bright, Bringing about love and faith Making the past free of weight.   Haunted by the bad times, Enchanted by the good times. Forever balancing the beast, Letting the future grow like yeast.   Take care, Helena Smole, author of: – a fantasy novel with romance Vivvy and Izzy the Dwarf: A series about relationships – Balancing the Beast, a book offering a bright view of schizoaffective...