"Changes Through the Years"

Changes Through the Years

Looking back through the years

Today I opened my ‘2023 my life songs’

Through all the tears of

All those years of fears and tears

And laughter, joy, pain

To gain,

Working towards the top.

What is up?

What is down?

Is it always the same?

Not everyone lives to see the rainbow

For all the good seeds they sow

As they drive the freeway of life.

The freeway goes up.

The freeway goes down.

We go on through life.

It’s never all about me

And all my strife

Of tears and fears and tears

And laughter of dancing all night long.

The candle burns at both ends

As we all begin our life.

Every song in my 2023 life’s songs begins

A new decade of love.

I shout out every decade,

“Who will I be with this decade?”

as I

Pull up the shades and peek

Out the window at the tree?

The tree stands among the leaves

Of autumn headed to winter

The decades of dreams of scenarios

Of love and heartache and to bake

Love into hot blooded spirits

The young days

I say,

There was a song

I always sang

“I’m Sorry”

By Brenda Lee.

As today the hip hop

Calls out for s spot.

The decades of rock n roll

Blues, country, classical

And jazz

All that jazz

Tells the story

Of my life as I lived a movie life.

Up and down the boulevards

Of Sunset and Vine

As I began

The climb

Of my life

Of every decade.

My songs were laid across

The milky way

Of stars, moons, and suns

From whence we all come and go

To from.

Lights, camera, action were my decades of soul searching.

Movies, music, boys were my goal

Every decade was a different soul

Work, college, music, art

Not farts

Were my game

If it’s all the same

I have a few more years

Of rock n roll

It’s good for the soul

As in the days of old

Or new or not

Let’s trot

Across the earth today

Here what I say

Democracy is on the ballot.

I voted BLUE.

So, it’s true.

Let’s cruise the boulevards

Of life with freedom

To dance

To romance whomever, we fancy

Girl, boy, or straight or gay.

Life is about love.

Smile!

Let’s dance the night away.

Here what I say.

Come 2025, we are sure to still be free,

As can be

Expected

As we drive life’s freeways.

See you guys and dolls

On the Santa Monica freeway

Or another street

Just dance for freedom

Looking back through the years

Today I opened my 2023 my life songs

Through all the tears of

All those years of fears and tears

And laughter, joy, pain

To gain.

Written by

VICKI LAWANA TRUSSELLI

September 24, 2024

Copyright 2024

Trusselli Art