ok here The Adventure: Fun, games and all new adventures in life, all the while growing up, like watching a puppy play in its new world. Then one day my eyes closed, hands clinched, heart is pounding through my chest. I can feel my toes and feet being eaten, like rats caught in a trap eating their way out. My hands and arms being pulled apart, like alligators fighting over the last deer as it try’s crossing the river. I feel something burying its way into my back as the ant eater digs through the mound for the last ant. The hyenas are fighting over my legs in mass confusion, I can feel the blood running down my face and into my eyes as the lion has my head in a firm hold. The leopard has me by the throat waiting for the last gasp of air. My mind is caught between flight and how to live, I want to run but I am frozen by fear, as the last drop of rain is sucked up by the polar ice cap. I think to myself as I feel my life slipping away from me. It all started out as nothing in the beginning, it was innocent fun, and I was like everyone else, tempting fate, like the bear cat tempts fate with the rattler. It became an addiction playing with fate, I wonder how I get out of this torment, how do escape, like the minnow try’s not being eaten by the shark. Suddenly a low rumble starts in the background; its presence gets closer and closer, as does the earthquake. I feel a warm hand gently touching my shoulder, as a kind gentle voice whispers hello young man. I can see a light in the distant through the cloudiness and my tormented blood stained eyes. No longer being ripped or torn apart as a peace down comes upon me as does the snow on the mountain top. Hope, courage and strength flows through me, the light is visible now in the distance as the sun rises over the mountain. I stand up and take a step and another step. My mind wonders everywhere as does the eagle soar above. I stop, take a step, stop, and take a step as I go between fear and movement. Confusion and clear moments surround me, as if I am darting between forests and clearing as the rabbit chases the wind. The light getting closer, I see people all around me now, all with wounds and scars as mine, some deeper, bigger or smaller than mine, it seems like a heard of wildebeest marching across the great plain as one family. As with each step, the hope, courage and strength grows in me as my scars and wounds begin to heal. It is as if the hope, courage and strength are carrying me now. With each step I feel better, with each step I get stronger as I pass the next cross roads, I lean down and whisper hello young man, as I reach my hand out, together we take the next step . As that voice again whispers in my ear, welcome back, to the big adventure we call life. Douglas C Salisbury Copyright 2013
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:05:05 +0000
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