Sometimes I like to look back to where I have been and map the progress of change and the bouts I have fought in the arena of life. I believe that this process is how we evolve as people and how the unexplained becomes explained. No matter what life has dealt us; if we are still here, we’ve prevailed.
By Charles Sapp II
The Sun’s tidal forces take over my body.
The Heavens and Earth hold dominion of my physical self.
My internal being shivers with recognition of loneliness and captivity,
until the awareness unthaws and breaks free from the molding of confinement.
The adventures of a new frontier await me,
as the sound of distant discoveries beckon my desires to investigate.
Eyes wide open in the dark,
scanning surfaces to detect a glimmer of hope, resting with inertia.
The strength of change,
emotionally transforms the human landscape as seasons approach,
where destiny reroutes its destination as we confirm truth from ideology.
My soul basks in nature’s light,
to absorb the current condition of existence
as it rains down with flash floods of awareness
where the weight of the world rests upon me.
At night the Moon consoles me;
she spotlights the key elements that make us dream
and leave the insignificant hidden in the dark.
The process leaves an open wound
and the reparation of mankind is symbolic to the healing.
I dive head first into the abyss of my body,
swimming deep to revive my drowned soul of the past
by breathing new hope and restoration of faith
into a body that has been beaten, bruised and cut by life.
My outer shell has toughened as my inner self has grown stronger.
Reality is what you make of it
and I realize that I am a hero to myself.
