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If you stare at the sun long enough, your eyes will become the desert they’ve always failed to see; Just beyond the limits of their perception. Empty, dry and tragic. If you stare into a pool of water long enough, you’ll see the vivid reflection of years meant to wade through relevance, yet stopped short, trapped in the irises you’ve held in a skull destined to become part of an ocean’s reef; another story lodged in the coral of ironic distraction. If you read these words, and look into yourself …just long enough You’ll see a life meant to be defined not by the elements around you, but by the intention in which you choose to see, and be seen. The ripples in the water, made by your stroke could drown you, or push you further toward a destiny written in the eyes of elements curated by a glow not of the sun, but of your own. You are at the helm, twaddling notes, denoting the curious expectations of a young drifting sum of celestial coordination. Where you go is up to you. What you see, feel, what you hear, taste, What you change… is in the heart of each moment you continue to turn the cogs of understanding, and breathe in the truth of why the wind pushes you toward a horizon that continues to stray. -James Kelley 2014, All rights reserved.
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