thinking about forever

And yet another of the Fields of Arbol word pictures, inspiration drawn from random meandering through art and photography source sites that are helping me with my refit of my websites. This one if by the stunningly lovely and talented Christina Banderas, and it is called

thinking about forever

even beautiful women stop and think
about things that there are no easy answers for.
riddles in the rationale of life.
the what-if questions that stumped Socrates.
we are all aware of ourselves to some degree
and the mere fact that a woman is lovely enough
to make us stop and give that furtive look
as though our eyes are cameras and we want
one last shot for the wall in our bedroom
of something that reminds us that God gets it right,
sometime,
doesn't say anything about her intellect
or wisdom or experience or sense of curiosity
as she pauses to ponder something
that keeps us awake at night.
when all the while, we wish it was her


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.