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Alphabet Soup


Life is like a bowl of alphabet soup. We aren’t in control of the letters we are given; The names of people, objects, places, All depend on the letters in our dishes. Thousands of possibilities; yet, they’re still limited by the scope, Or rim, of our individual servings. It’s up to our vision, our imagination to extend these barriers. A bowl can become an ocean if one believes it to be so. Life is like a bowl of Alphabet soup, But how we arrange the letters, where we let them lead us; That’s where our freedom lies…
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