I have a feeling that
something big is just around the bend. Is it just my imagination or
lack there of? Did we create a rift in the time space continuum
relaying our emotions to the vast beyond? Or all we all just drunk on
this thing called life?
There has been an unsettling
feeling stirring within me for over a month now and it is the most
uncomfortable place I've have been in a very long time. There was a
time that I believed that my father was a God and faultless, I though
my mother had all the answers, that my friends would always be my
friends, my family would live within a block of each other, and that
my grandparents would live forever.
I used to believe that bullies
were just bullies, that cheerleaders were all flakes, that blonds
should be stopped, and that the dark was a scary place to be without
a candle. I use to think that being smart was unobtainable, that
reading was not possible, and that the past could not hurt me. I use
to think that I had a rock for a heart, and a trash bin for a soul.
I know better now.
I use to sit for hours on end
just dreaming of how it was going to be and why it had to be the way
it is. I find myself these days trying to remember what it *was* like
and worry less about what is going to be. I use to believe that we
are all black or white, good or bad, sinners or heaven sent... I now
know that we are not... not black or white, not good or bad, not
sinners or heaven sent. I now know that we are all just us, human,
alive, and making our way through the metal jungle with at time the
stealth moves of a stalking feline and other times with the clout of
a sloth... and other times we are standing still not moving an inch,
waiting…yes waiting for those that are not there yet, waiting for
those that will walk with us a mile and share in our joys, sadness,
tears, and triumphs.
I now see that a smile can
cure a cut, and a kiss can make things better. I see that we are all
part of a common ground, doing our best to remove the walls of clay
that are no longer needed, replacing them with that grand old
slamming screen door; and not once shouting “stop the slamming”.
We swing it open wild and free, letting it slam against our soul's
allowing the wind to carry the echo to those that have yet to find
the front porch.
For those of you that are
still waiting, I thank you. I see that porch light on, it has been a
long trek, but your echo is guiding me well ensuring that my steps
are rich and sure. I was lost in a fog for what seemed a lifetime,
but that fog is lifting and I see the hand outstretched.
I was
asleep for so long.
Jade 2003
I'm wide awake now.
How's
that for rambling ?