Fit
for N.N.
always willing always was
able to fit into the crevices in me
like water up against craggy rock
lapping, laughing or in earnest in conversation
the rock and the water, where these would meet
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
1:12 p.m. 01.09.09
for N.N.
always willing always was
able to fit into the crevices in me
like water up against craggy rock
lapping, laughing or in earnest in conversation
the rock and the water, where these would meet
© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
1:12 p.m. 01.09.09
posted by Obie Quiet at 1:24 PM
2 Comments:
this one 'fits' really snugly near my heart:-)
I am very inspired, by the way, by the comment you left me recently, about whatever drives us to live fully. I never thought about life that way...it does make the rat race seem all together not so bad. Thank You! (It is amazing that you miss college though!)
ScotchBiscuits, I have this photograph on the back cover of my very first book, Bicentennial Blues. It was taken, I think, in 1975. I was a Speech and Drama and Biology Major, at M.S.U., at the time. People see that photograph now of me at 21 and go, "Wow!" One girl friend said "ummm nice". Physically, how handsome I must have been. We take our beauty and how alive we are in our 20s, and very likely our intelligence too, for granted. Oftentimes we are distracted by feelings of powerlessness or of not being omnipotent and do not celebrate and appreciate being in flower, being in bloom. I look back on being in college and realize that I was then at the height of something. There is this hill you get to the top of, go over and then begin to go down. Nothing doctors and drugs can do to make you as healthy as you were when you were young as healthy as can be. What can bring back when you had wings? Enjoy your wings therefore, ScotchBiscuits.
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