Thursday, October 9, 2008

How does one become important.... {5}

61} I have left these shores to face the tempest night. That stirs the stars against the waters with it's storms. The sirenssing their song. It's like a thousand hands that pull me down and break the course I travel on. The ocean fills my lungs, drowning out the sun. It's rising in my lungs, I can't breathe. 62} "I think that's what I find most strange about this world is that nobody ever says how they feel. They hurt, but they don't cry out. They're happy, but they don't dance or jump around. And they're angry but they hardly ever scream. Because they feel ashamed. Nothing's worse than that. So we all walk around with our heads looking down never look up and see how beautiful the sky is". 63} I know it's pitiful but this medicine says I'll never feel again but I'll still monitor your heart rate to calculate your health even when it's keeping me from sleeping because it's beating for someone else. Well, if bitter is all I can be. I'd rather not be at all. 64} Just like ships, we float through each other's lives, through the waters of beauty and grace. We will one day dock at the same port, and give rest to our weary legs. 65} When panic grips your body and your heart's a hummingbird. Raven thoughts blacken your mind, til you're breathing in reverse. Your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse, Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt. Better find yourself a place to level out. 66} Take one last breath. Open up your eyes, this is all that's left. Your beating heart will soon have nothing left, and then you'll know the pain of love's regret. It's okay, you're fine. I swear that you won't feel the sting. You never felt anything. 67} Heavenly Father, helps us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19--year--old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester. Remind us. Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares. Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week. this will be the last year that they go shopping together. Heavenly Father, remind us each day that of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love, It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive. show patience, empathy and love. 68} I'm sitting in a room, made up of only big white walls and indoor halls. There's people looking through the window. though they know exactly what we're here for. Don't look up, Just let them think there's no place else you'd rather be. You're always on display. For everyone to watch and learn from. Don't you know by now, you can't turn back. Because this road is all you'll ever have. 69} I'm watching your eyes move slowly Up and Down my silhouette. And I wonder if you get it yet. This is the last time I crawl away on these broken knees. And don't you wish it all would be okay? 70} She has a fear of heights. the way you feel when you're leaving on your first flight. She's like a sinking stone. fading from the surface. but we are never alone. She's on a fightrope, losing balance. yet something's pulling her towards hope. I want to run to her,but I've already played that card, so I will fight the urge. Eyes closed, fingers crossed; praying that she's lost...... You'll never know what's around the bend. "Avoid the unknown" is ringing in your head. She has a fear of love, accepting everything but what she really dreamed of. She keeps her heart locked; no she won't ever answer even though she hears a knock. But love is at the door, and after all isn't that what we are here for? ........TO BE CONTINUED
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