A Paige In My Life
by Travis Beck
I come in contact each day of my life,
With different types of pages.
Some are pages of the newspaper,
Others are pages of my favorite magazine or book.
There are times when it is a yellow page.
My favorite page is a page of my life,
One that has been there for thirty years.
This page is like no other I have found,
This page was so beautifully illustrated.
It started out as a small one, printed with many questions.
What is this page? Where does it go?
What will become of it?
Does it belong in my book of life?
Questions that were asked of me,
Questions that I thought I would never have to ponder
Answers that had to be found,
Answers that created a search deep and wide.
Could I give the correct answers or not,
Then I was told, there are no 'yes' and 'no' answers.
There are only the answers of your heart.
With prayer for guidance, and direction from above,
I placed this small page in my book of life.
As I daily opened my life's book,
I saw more things printed upon this page.
A page that came to cause so much emotion.
As time quickly flew by,
The contents of my once small page,
Now had grown darker, containing more shadows than light.
Shadows that tended to darken its once bright light,
A lighted page I so wanted to see again.
My page became one that was hard to identify.
One moment it was bright and cherry,
The next, dark and dreary.
I realized that I was no longer seeing,
The page I once so loved.
It was time for me to seek additional help.
My editorial skills had lacked the word power,
To impress the necessary message upon my page.
With great difficulty, I transferred my page to another,
Praying that it would be returned to me in its true form.
So my page was sent to a new editor,
To one that had better editing skills,
One that had more knowledge from the Great Editor.
I marvel at the message that the right editor can write,
Bringing forth bold headlines, "Love Overcomes Hate".
I now have my page back in my book of life,
More beautifully illustrated than at first sight.
This time better protected,
With a stronger cover of love.
One that will endure a life time.
My Paige has now been copied from my life's book,
The copy moved to another's book of life.
The original will always remain where it belongs,
In a section marked "Special",
In my book of life.
Copyright © Travis Beck January 2001
