"This Is Your Life"
It's Possible for a time to come in your life... when you can get everything you probably didn't deserve. You achieve 75% of a greater fragment that 5 yrs ago you thought was impossible to reach.
You realize that you are a part of an amazing canvas of family & friends that will always be there when it matters. Somehow you have managed to stumble upon these diamonds. Somehow you have managed to discover these paths that others are also willing to walk with you. Somehow you have finally realized just how loved you are... And you're still not exactly sure how any of it happened or why it happened to you. There are so many things in our lives that we have absolutely no control over----like the How's and the When's or the Why our parents gravitated towards each other, or when they chose to make a love that eventually became you. I know that in the grand scheme of things, 30 years is barely even a blink, a wrinkle, a whisper...and it sometimes comes and goes unnoticed. Well, yesterday my family and friends made sure that my 30th day in this life would not pass by them unnoticed. Yesterday was more than a surprise, more than a whisper or a wrinkle, more than a blink. Yesterday they reminded me of my own words..." I can be famous in my cipher and NEVER have been known to the world...and never have been seen through the eye's of the universe...but be important, in spite of all of this ...to someone."
You realize that you are a part of an amazing canvas of family & friends that will always be there when it matters. Somehow you have managed to stumble upon these diamonds. Somehow you have managed to discover these paths that others are also willing to walk with you. Somehow you have finally realized just how loved you are... And you're still not exactly sure how any of it happened or why it happened to you. There are so many things in our lives that we have absolutely no control over----like the How's and the When's or the Why our parents gravitated towards each other, or when they chose to make a love that eventually became you. I know that in the grand scheme of things, 30 years is barely even a blink, a wrinkle, a whisper...and it sometimes comes and goes unnoticed. Well, yesterday my family and friends made sure that my 30th day in this life would not pass by them unnoticed. Yesterday was more than a surprise, more than a whisper or a wrinkle, more than a blink. Yesterday they reminded me of my own words..." I can be famous in my cipher and NEVER have been known to the world...and never have been seen through the eye's of the universe...but be important, in spite of all of this ...to someone."
2 Comments:
Iyeoka once again your ability to articulate the unspoken still blows me away! How you felt about the event and what your wrote is exactly what we wanted! It was worth every moment!
Happy Birthday my friend, sister, comedian, road dog, soulmate and movie hopper!
Wow!! Iyeoka, this poem is beautiful. It's amazing how simple the words you use can make such an impact at the way you use them. You keep going girl!!
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