Learning the Lines

The lines in your palm predict the way your life will go

The lines in your face tell the way your life has gone

But the most important lines are the ones you say

Every day that aren’t written anywhere but make up

The fabric and weft and weave of the play that is what

Ultimately turns out to be the poem that is your life

If you are one of the fortunate ones, you learn early

Some of the phrases that work well to help keep peace

In your home, in your heart, in your family but don’t

Make you sell out your soul in the process; you learn

Your lines as if they are a part of you and one day, they

Will be; you will make sense of the lines and life will

become easier all round, once you begin learning

the lines.

©SE Ingraham