Of a teenaged mind
Still exploring the meanings
Of life's simplest-seeming concepts
Of passion and love
Of theology and life
Of belief and religion
Of art and expression
Of even those "forbidden-to-the-youth" concepts;
Of sex, drugs & even rock n' roll.
Life takes you to interesting places
And each and every high and low
That we must experience
Is essential to the balance
Of Life.
And without that balance,
We would be
Lost in translation
Dazed and Confused
All F***ed Up.
Do you know the feeling
Of complete and total calm?
That serene and even possibly eerie feeling,
Where its way too quiet?
Do you know the feeling
Of the ocean spray against your face
The feeling that nothing in this beautiful place
Can ever go wrong?
Do you know the feeling
After hearing the phone ring
And hoping, or even knowing,
Exactly who it was on the other line?
I do.
And sitting on this windowsill
Of this vast open window
In my step-father's 3-story mansion,
I experience all these feelings
All at once.
As I sit here
Concentrating on only
the vast blue ocean
presenting itself in front of me,
I notice
things are a bit too quiet.
Not that I mind,
But I am used to hearing
sounds of verbal abuse, chattering animals,
Sex Pistols blaring
from my brothers room.
And just as I notice
the placid consciousness,
The phone rang.
As I get up to retrieve the receiver
From my bed-side table,
Memories of the past pervade my mind
And instantly I know
who is calling.
My heart skips a beat,
And I take a step back from the nightstand.
I lean over to peak at the caller ID
And not to my surprise,
I was right.
I start pacing around the room.
What does this mean?
Why would they be calling me?
The phone stops short of the last ring.
Someone has picked it up.
[[[[i dont know what i think about it yet. i havent made up my mind. i'm probably going to change the tense.
but other than that its just a brainstorm.]]]]
-Marissa Galin
May 30, 2007
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