This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Snowden On Date: 2001-04-18 21:33:18 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Journey Down

Until Kentucky--goodbye. Do not regard that as a tragedy. It is not callous or cruel, just for the best. It was a blessed life, and now we can admire it from a distance. The passion that can transform a soul did not seem to be mine. It was clearly direction and clever luck-- quite civilized, but a blinding flash. I am exhausted.  I will sleep for hours on the plane.  A kind of death perhaps-- I'll leave it at that. It can't burn or destroy me now. It is just the timeless creator of the things that hurt. No more children or romances, no summer holidays... We can just paint over them now. When you fall in dreams you're a child again, reborn. With an almost delicate ease, I slipped beneath that fantastic thought. Perhaps the devil stood beside me, but I felt as if I was asleep in someone's arms. When awake, I never spoke of the present again. That is the secret. That is how to perform without guilt. Sometimes I wonder how I could breathe at all. I witness all the years of failed love crashing down. I look at my watch. We all suffer, love, and wait. Of the regret in my heart there is not a trace. So we wind a ribbon around our words with thoughts about mothers and fathers-- and it doesn't matter. The first lap of the journey has begun. The tears I shed are for no one. I am leaving tomorrow at six. I will stay on the lower path with no frantic pursuits to symbolize the night. Wish me well.

Copyright © April 2001 James C. Snowden


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