Thinking one day of my mortality and the next dimension, my thoughts turned to Julie, my wife, my love, and how I would find her there in the land that only the soul can know. These are the words that came to me:*
How Will I Find You?
There in the light blue sky
Where I look for your face
In the soft white puff of cloud?
There in the empty chair
Where you once quietly sat
In the room of my solitude?
There in the now barren garden
Where I once watched you
Kneeling, planting your seeds?
There along the pristine beach
Where we collected sea glass
Among the gulls and shells?
Where will you be when I am
In the shadows of tomorrow
A man lost in youth’s sorrow?
How will I find you, my love
Knowing not where to look
In such a strange new world?
When my timid spirit wavers
There in that unknown land
How will you return to me?
In the darkness that is death
What is God’s demand of me
To atone for sins of life?
Why does this most peculiar
Etching of words play so
Strongly upon my defiled soul?
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BR Chitwood November 13, 2020 (From the Archives)
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I'm a young man in an old man's body, trying to catch up to myself, trying to find pieces of me I left back in a disconnected youth and the early years of manhood. I'm a stereotype of many in my generation who can play the 'blame game', yell 'foul', and 'let's start over'. But, we are what we are, the sum of all the scary kid-emotions we experienced, the gin mills and piano bars that became our sandboxes of pleasure - lotus eaters of the best (or, worst) kind, the love affairs that did not quite settle us down, the sad poetry and songs written in bars and motels along the way... A Dreamer! A Wanderlust! The world needs such fools as we to write our books, our poetry, our songs, to offset the madness that plagues the soul.
I've written fourteen books, over three hundred blog posts, in search of those pieces left somewhere in many parts of the globe. You can preview my books on the next page. There's even a Blog page...all my posts are not showing on this recently created blog page, but, if you want to read more, go to my official blog site and check out the archives: http://www.thefinalcurtain1
Writing for me is therapy for the soul.
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Your poems are always so touching , Billy Ray. Thank you for sharing. xox
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Thank you, dear Eden. xox
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