The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche
...I'm also going to go as far as to check it off as #7 on my 29 before thirty list... I'd say it's Just Right!! <3
more cause to celebrate.. i finished In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day in January.. 29 before thirty #11!
dad's having the stint surgery tomorrow.. many have been praying.. it's been hard to see him hurt and suffer these last few weeks. he's still working and doing his thing, but with much less energy and fervor than before..a poem for my father
breath
I miss you
and you’re not even gone
Our conversation sticks to my insides
like sap on a tree
and I am forever changed
by it’s slow progression
I find myself gasping for air
much like you
for secrets like these
are a slow death
that never reach the waters surface
and never get the air they need
I would give you my breath
if it would save you
for I have clung to your legs
more than I should have
your fragile little girl
never too far from home
In my memory
I see a figure
whose hands never failed me
whose love never capsized
when the waters submerged my body
and now, in your memory
you will see a figure
whose body will walk beside you
whose love will never leave you
and I will do all that I can
to find the breath that you need
