As A Child I Wanted

Wherever Your Heart Rests There I Will Live And Be Blessed I've Tried To Line Up The Things I Needed To Say But Now My Feelings Just Tumble From Me. I Am Half Foolish, Half Drunk With Wanting You With Wanting To Take Your Hand And Leap Into The Darkness Of Whatever Life Will Bring. Love Makes Me Brave And Without Love I'm Made Nothing.

And What I Was Feeling Was The Wonder Of Being More Than Me, Of Being More Than Mere Here And Now Allowed I Had Become A Shining Star, A Burning Nova Exploded With Love Flying Through An Endlessly Expanding Universe Away From The Me That Was Toward A Me That Is Beyond Understanding.

Cutting People Out Of Your Life Is Easy, Keeping Them In Is Hard.

Reading Is Not Optional.

I Joined The Army On My Seventeenth Birthday, Full Of The Romance Of War After Having Read A Lot Of World War I British Poetry And Having Seen A Lot Of Post-world War Ii Films. I Thought The Romantic Presentations Of War Influenced My Joining And My Presentation Of War To My Younger Siblings.