RIGHT HERE

For days, I continued to bounce off walls
The words that slept within were becoming restless
Their space too confining
So serious in their effort to come out to play
And thus, it begins again.

In my younger years, I thought I needed more
So I became greedy in my search
For I had a need that was all elusive.

I fought so hard in my desperation
For a love that equaled so much more
Making my search sometimes so ruthless.

Now, I look and I question this need
That feeling I thought I needed more of
and I finally see.

I already had the more, but was blinded by my greed
I took getting older, noticing I never mentioned wiser
fearing I'd see the doubt

I look at my family - my daughters and son
The grandchildren my children gave to me
and my heart melts with too much emotion
Pouring over me in waves of emotional bliss

So I look at the man sitting in corner
whose grown old with me,
who walked by my side and helped me with
The family we can sincerely call our own.

Realizing the more has always been there.
Here - right here.