A New Leaf

Man, it feels like forever since I've just posted something here. Just sat down and started typing what's inside. It's good to have that feeling again. Just me and a blank screen and an imagination full of possibilities.

I've been inspired. I've been sitting here listening to Michael Buble, who I normally don't listen to. But I wanted something classic, something that immediately gives you that sense of place, that slow, jazzy, piano and voice type of music that makes you feel like the world is brighter, reminds you that the people you have in your life are the most precious things you'll ever have, that life is so incredibly good.

I realized sometime within the past week that in order to count the people who I consider the most important in my life, I have to use at least three hands. And that's pushing it. I actually can't bring myself to use anything less than four. How did I become this blessed? What in all of my messed-up, mistake-ridden life does God see that allows Him to give me more love, from him and from my family and from my friends than I could ever contain within my sorry excuse for a heart? It is unbelievable.

Another thing I realized is that I've been hiding a lot of things. Not in a bad way, but just kind of saving them for the right time. I have all these things that I've written that I've been sitting on, or have been laying in a dusty drawer somewhere that I haven't really done anything with. Thoughts, poems, stories, etc. I guess I've been waiting for them to be published. And I realized how silly this was. When I can share them, here, now, today. I don't care about getting published, at least not right now. I can share them with people right now, and that's the whole point, anyway. Right?

So I'm going to start posting some of that stuff here. And to get us started, I will post one of my favorites.

ICARUS

IF I WAS TO FALL

BROKEN AND BURNING FROM THE SKY

IN THE LIGHT AND THE BLAZE

OF A FIERY RELEASE

IF I WAS CONSUMED BY THE FLAME BURNING INSIDE

IF IT CRAWLED AND DUG ITS WAY

THROUGH MY VEINS

AND FOUND ESCAPE THROUGH

THE WINDOWS OF MY EYES

IF YOU COULD SEE IT BURNING THERE...

IF I FELL ONE THOUSAND MILES

THROUGH THE AIR

A GLORIOUS COMET OF HEAT AND LIGHT

MARKED BY THE TRAIL

OF SMOKE THROUGH THE BLUE

FALLING SO SLOWLY YOU COULD

COUNT THE EONS AND THE BREATHS

IN BETWEEN ME AND YOU

IF I EXPLODED A MILE FROM THE SURFACE

AND WITHIN SIGHT OF MY DESTINATION

IF YOU WATCHED MY DESTRUCTION

IN PERFECT SILENCE SO FAR ABOVE YOUR HEAD

AND MY SPARKLING ASHES RAINED DOWN

IN STREAMS ALL ACROSS THE SEA

IF YOU COLLECTED ALL THE PIECES

FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH

AND REASSEMBLED MY SOUL

AND REBUILT MY BODY FROM SCRATCH

I HAVE ONLY A SINGLE WISH...

PLEASE REATTACH MY BROKEN WINGS

SO I CAN FLY AGAIN...

-Andrew J. Clark