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Lost and Found
I have lost my vision
Lost my ability to look into my imagination and draw up youthful exuberance
Once upon a time, I could feel the freedom of a soaring spirit….
Unfettered mind
A flag flying not in tatters….instead clean and brand new
The winds that blew then were fresh and full of bright sunlight….
The smell of springtime evergreen trees
I never knew then…. back when I felt so old….
So wizened
Time would drag me down
Here and now on the ground held here by reason and logic
I cannot help but see everything with a bitter, cynical clarity
The moments are few, and too soon forgotten, when my heart soared
I can only explain that feeling of elation
Everything forgotten except the excitement and anticipation of another day
No longer do I feel the freedom of abandonment
I yearn for those feelings as I yearn to be in the forest
Away from time, concrete, people and the smell of society’s decay
Amid the animals with the birds flying overhead
The cry of the crow
A warning of mans intrusion
The thunderous sound of the flapping wings of a grouse as it takes flight
Startled by unfamiliar footsteps
The sound of pine needles and leaves crackling underfoot
I feel the earth beneath my feet and I smell the rain in the trees
The cold air in my lungs feels like satisfaction and completion
I am here finally…. out of space and time
Worries and troubles left behind
There is quiet in my mind
A soundness of emotion and an affirmation of being
On the horizon all that I see is filled with clear new perception
Clean and fresh...new
Snow upon the mountain and an eternal sky before me
The sun sitting low on the mountain tops in hues of pinks, purples and blues
As time intrudes a realization that the vision remains, distance keeps me sane....and
I am here with a fresh outlook and my center still holds strong and alive....revived
