Just Within Reach

just within reach? things! lots of things! stuff one could collect, especially graphic novels with a writer that made you wish you had a photographic memory so you would never forget even one consonant or one vowel he wrote. with an artist who used a pencil like Van Gogh used a paint brush except better - or - only better ...you choose...edit this yourself using that memory I referred to earlier on. every girl that walked by me when I was a teen - whose fragrance lingered inside quotation marks that sang the words "without you I'll be alone". every woman that walked by me when I was a teen - whose strut pulled at my heart to follow and accept their logic "yes I'm your teacher but why let a little technicality like that get in the way of true lust" jobs loads of them that had ladders with only one rung at the top that got me thinking "what are you waiting for? this was made for you. three months and you'll own the joint." careers that giggled like choir boys stuffing their faces at the local pizzeria thinking 'life never gets better than this'. careers wishing I would hop on for the ride whispering in my ear "shut up and do me " and then screaming "YES... YES..." followed up by even more screaming "YES...YES and ending in a soprano round of "Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care..." sports that skated by me like home runs that scored two points going through the field goal posts of the end of the spikes of a soccer player taking the three point shot with only five seconds left on the clocked filly getting her first hole in one hell of a boxing match point to win Wimbledon for the fourth stroke in a rowing competition. disciplines that courted me with their indignant stern voices yelling "can you handle me child?" disciplines that came with costs...heavy costs. disciplines that paraded themselves like supermodels dressed in high couture walking the runways in paris france where bilingual tourists outside sat in fancy outdoor cafés smoking Gauloises unfiltered cigarettes. all of this and more, everything just within reach... I TOOK, I took and I held, I embraced, I romanced, I seduced, I savoured, I treasured, I lived, I loved, I respected... ...I never took for granted and in time I moved closer and closer to that which was outside my reach... I hoped, I dreamt, I acted soon enough it was ALL...just within my reach. without regret I claimed everything I wanted. I called it my art...gave it everything I had and more and I thank God he gave me the strength to digest everything just within my reach then to succeed beyond my reach! April 23 2015 Just within your reach always...my love! Armand