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VALLEY OF SHADOWS I walked home through the woods from a friends late one night, I thought I’d be fine with my trusty flashlight. Just past the trail head a lightning bolt struck, it seemed a small omen of continued bad luck. The bolt forked and felled two tri-century trees, it’s violent force brought them both to their knees. I jumped from the jolt dropped my light on a rock and now I would have to walk home in the dark. It’s clear in my mind and easy to remember. It happened last month, the first part of September. No moonlight or starlight my vision was blind, that was when fearfulness entered my mind. Lions feed at night and so does the bear the thought of them both surely gave me a scare. Slowly and blindly I made my way home, those creatures around me in the dark all alone. It was then that I noticed a funny thing about fear, it sharpens the senses and makes the mind clear, my ears could hear better my heart quickened it’s pace my nose began smelling I was flushed in the face. Feeling the danger on both sides of the trail made me see that the truth is, we are really quite frail. Just flesh, blood and bone, mind, spirit and soul; I was out in the woods where I had no control. I kept trudging along it was so plain to me, freedom has a price as does liberty. Lions on the ground and bears in the trees; I may die on my feet but I’ll not live on my knees. |
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