In our life’s accounting
Don’t we experience
Entries on both sides of living’s ledger
Unable to control the scale’s balance
In regard to shifting life’s emphasis
Toward either bitter or sweet
For most of us this bittersweet scale
Has tipped both ways
In the duration of life’s passing

This awareness has led me
To casually meandering
Through life’s lessons and memories
And in this discovery found
I will seek more flowers in bloom
Spend more time watching
Breathtaking sunrises and sunsets
Brightened by fully living
Ever following the setting sun