Your heart mind or soul (which one would it be?) Part one

Your heart mind or soul

(which one would it be?)

Part one

When we are young I mean just a child we

do not think about getting old or even dying

only about going outside with all our friends

then playing as hard and for as long as you

can going to the park or playing with your

dolls riding your bike or getting muddy when

all the rains fall, then just a little bit later all

of a sudden you become a teenager learning

how to drive turning sixteen you believe that

you are invincible and will live forever just

like the sun that will rise up into the skies

every morning and the stars and moon who

will shine their twinkling light down upon you

will come out in the night , then you wake up

one day start looking back through all of your

past memories you start to wonder where did

all that time go? How did it slip away? Feels

just like yesterday, you went to bed and fell

asleep last night then when you woke up your

back was hurting so were your knees your

hair was thinning and your mustache was all

grey not quite sure how but I was turning the

big five ohhh just like that in the blink of an

eye I had already made fifty rotations around

the sun, your mind starts wondering where in

the hell has my life gone? What have I got to

show for it? What a have I done, I truly never

believed that I would live this long anyways

remembering when you were twenty thinking

that fifty seems so old and far away, you look

around all of your kids are grown they are to

busy to stop by or even call raising their own

families now, your aunts and uncles are no

more your parents cannot remember who you

are, people you knew are starting to go away

so you start wondering when is it going to be

your turn to pass as we look in the mirror letting

out a gasp at what we see shaking your head

in disbelief mouthing the words "Is that really

me?" all those wrinkles on your face and maybe

a second chin you look to see your perky breast

but they have lost their bounce hanging down

about a foot along with some other stuff as you

stare you start to notice how blurry it is not that

you wanted see all that anyways.

You see there are three basic reasons that

makes us human that are buried deep down

inside of us all, they carry the basic code or

genetic features of who and what we are and

shall become, they hold our feelings along with

human emotions you know the ones that cause

us to laugh cry hurt hate or even love they are

called our heart, mind, and soul and follow us

like a shadow wherever we go in life they are

a constant reminder of our humanity always

trying to save us from ourselves and all of the

insanity of this world and beyond, whispering

secrets constantly between themselves yet

rarely agreeing on anyone or anything which

will sometimes cause your mind to go just a

little bit crazy at times convincing your heart to

lie about this or that and or break into a million

pieces or your soul to become very lonely or

go insane from feeling all the pain that this life

we all live can sometimes cause, but, what

would we do without them, and that is where

the question lies, which is "When we get old

and it is our time to go, which one goes first

or do they all go at the same time if you had

to choose between the three heart mind or

soul which one would it be?

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey