No cause for a sigh…
Instead take a deep breath and let your sigh become silence…
place your hand on your chest and feel your heart beat…
See all around you that beats because you are alive… feel the embrace of love…
Close your eyes and enter your peace…
You just created that space…
All grown up…
It would be unwise to assume that all there is to know has been shed upon me…
I rub my face and look into the mirror, to see my own eyes staring back at me asking the same question that I beckon an the answer from my reflection…
Where has all the time gone?
The silence in the room is only broken once my soul begins to shift, yet I remain still… waiting patiently for an answer…
I stare until the surface of what everyone sees disappears… there are only two sets of very familiar eyes staring back into one another… dark brown portals with staircases leading to the depths of the soul…
At the bottom of those staircases are corridors to traverse years of travel in an intimate moment of solitude… It’s been well over twelve-thousand days… My feet and ankles ache, but not more than my heart when I ask the question…
How far have I come? And do not have an answer…
I see the grooves in my soul from walking in circles…
and it breaks my heart…
Then crushed by waves my body floods, I’m forced out of my trance and brought back to being face to face with myself in the mirror…
A tear rolls down my face… the room is silent but the onslaught of living my dreams whispers that I am free to do so; so long as I look at where I wish to go by saying…
Your life is immeasurable by any man, even yourself…
Just be willing to go the distance…
and a tear rolled down my face…
and I smiled.
The charm of any keepsake is the closeness that it bears to the heart…
Lockets containing pictures with messages enscribed on the back proclaiming love and dedication… get passed along and tell a story to be passed along… and its been way past a long time for you to begin one of your own…
It’s in your eyes past what everyone can see… the beginning of something beautiful… the warm beginning of a record releasing the crackles of a kindling fire in which you dance to your favorite song, you relax at the end of your day and even if playing in the background…
its still there… and at the end you turn it over and listen even deeper until you have to do so again… and again… and again…
a joy to hear… you are listening… to pages turning in photo albums of things that happened and will happen… they draw you into remembrance… take hold of the present and make you gaze at your love becoming lost in the future…
What is within us that although as old as time itself always tastes so sweet, as warm as something new, a story … a song that no matter how many times you’ve heard it… never gets old…ageless… timeless… antique… vintage… love.
When my eyes close…
The hurt that surrounds me is no longer in sight and I am enshrouded in darkness… and it is there that I can hide away, but everyone can still see me…
I am adult, playing a child’s game of multidimensional peek-a-boo with the universe in which the visible world before me is no longer in sight… but the one inside of me composed of my memories and emotions remains…
This is where I am… all alone…
Won’t someone hear me scream?
For I have been here far too long in this darkness that I no longer have shape… I have no face… I am the sum of all that I have endured, triumphed, cried over, laughed about, hated and loved… and although here I possess no physical set of eyes… I can see all of these things set before me…
Running away is impossible because I am this world… and it is from all the experiences I have lived through that have given me this cosmos encased by my skin…. So why try and hide? Why try and leave?
This is my life… and I am thankful….
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