Earth's Staircase

Standing in my chucks.
Just standing.
My camo shorts
Bagging out at the end
My bright green tee
My hair wavering in the breezes
Clings to my face like a web across my eyes

I stare at the eucalyptus
Just staring
And search for its top.

I feel dread
Just feeling
But I wash it away
Pack my innards with thrill
The coruscating sun attempts to blind me
Like the smoke of burning bridges behind me

I’m climbing it
Just climbing
My calves are pulling
I feel their strands stretching,
Snapping the twines and
My foot falls.
But my forearms relieve me
With a circular grip scrunched around the sandy bark.

The bumps and edges cut my skin
Just cutting
And I grow calloused
But I am met with prickling needles

Jabbing in me
Just jabbing
Catching the threads
Undoing the seamstresses work.

I’m losing the pain in my legs
Just losing
It’s fading
Just fading
I lose the needles sight
Just blinding
branches fly away.
Just flying
The blue sky turns white
Just turning
I can’t breathe the heavy air.
Just dying…

i lose my hands,
my eyes,
my toungue,
my nose,
my ears
all….

I’m lost in the white,
floating,
flying,
fleeing…

Like the blast of a bomb the ridged branch slaps against my back.
The needles, the branches, the scraping bark,
It’s all around me again in a sudden burst.
The air is heavier,
The branches are heavier,
My arms are heavier.

The sight down looks like a sweet escape,
Like the secret passage of a dark mansion.

No.

Look up.
I can go one more.
Darkness, needles, sharp pains and bruises. Aching.
Just aching
All till the top.

I know
Just knowing
I can’t see it.
I can’t feel it
I can’t breathe it
I can’t hear it.

But it’s there.
It’s bright, it shines, it blinds,
It radiates and exudes all the pain.
I will see the forest tops,
I will feel the breeze,
I will touch the sky,
I will talk to the birds,
I will taste the sweetest apples.
I will win.
Just winning.

17 years of thought

So much changes. So much of me wants to take the insides and make the green. So much of me is beginning to look like elephants in the sky. I can't stay the same anymore. And my mind is starting to wander a lot. I have things under my belt, and unfortunately one of them is age. With age I grow envy, possibly green, possibly blue, possibly bright fuchia (i only wish.) I want my youth, I want those memories to be lived again, I want to return and rerun through the grass and climb the trees and laugh once again like I once did. But I contradict myself. I want to understand, I want to understand the integral of a derivatives sine, I want to understand the existentials and their lives, and I want to understand the meaning of life and its counterparts. I want to put the world into an artistic perspective that inludes the ever so cliche love and peace. I want to show others my view in a frame, a white frame, sometimes black, but never grey. I am scared of the future but I want it and am hopeful. I think on the end of my life, and I think on the beginning of my new one. I think on the serial murders and the decapitation and I think on the laughter of the friends and the wooing of the fallen one. My mind races and I try to halt it, I try to think of white and I try to lose my thoughts and I try to lay sleeping dreamless and yet I want to explore the land of imaginary, so much I want to live there. I want to be more than I seem and I want to be simple. I am no longer me am I, I am no longer who I was, my mind has changed and I am beginning to fall into it like all those around me, like I was warned with a beating stick, like i should have seen coming. God I'm grateful for wha I do have and I am grateful for the heart you put inside me, no matter the size, and God I want to become well acquainted with all and You, thank-you for life.

Can you say "resolved?"

Question!

Is it too late to talk about New Year Resolutions? It seems not much talk went around about it this year. I didn't really get challenged to do anything this year and I don't know if I had a chance to challenge anyone else either. Why this is a new year, and as a friend said to me recently we have quite a year ahead of us. We need to make it worth it and do some work for the Lord, we need to make something out of our life and glorify Him doing it. Ok so lets do some new year's resolution stuff.

First on our agenda is attendance. Say present when called. Me: present. Jesus: present..duh. Ok we're all here lets move on.

Second would be reconsideration of previous endeavors. Now I haven't saved the world or attempted to destroy it so I think I'm on good terms with the U.N. but let's not get hasty. Wait...thats not what I meant. No lets look at the previous resolutions. I can't think of but one, and that one was actually a blog post. Something about being a hero. I can't say if I was one or not. Did I even try? I think i did...hmm. This is difficult. Let's have a vote:.... Alright the tallies are in. And the results say....idk....my bff jill? Alright so I don't know if I met my resolution for last year or not. I guess I'll have to try again and we'll see. Since no other endeavor's can be reacquainted we'll have to move along.

Third on business is new new year resolutions....(is that gramatically right? do i care? jk) This year I'm attempting to keep a constant walk with God with little straying from the path, not to say the path won't be very rocky, I want to fight the rocks, grrr rocks. Secondly I want to run a lot more, because I enjoy that. So I already started my reslolution of running everyday except for sunday, for any amount of time. That lasted two days because since I don't own running shoes and the shoes I do own are flats (and would be no good running in) I run bare foot. I had my hardest and longest run the other day which caused me to bruise my achilles tendon. Ouch! So i have about a week of this year that I'm going to log as a injury so I don't get behind on my resolution and get running shoes to run in.

Fourth on our agenda: ask visitors to post comments of their resolutions so I can maybe help keep accountable or not if you don't want me too, but just so this discussion is made this year and the infamous New Year is not left out of your life.

By the way, monster energy drink is evil.