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What stirs around me is evasive and true A light appears over me glowing and spinning I get a calm feeling when and ever it's due People have seen it, gasping and pointing They say "what was that, what did you just do? There was a light spinning around, like a ring" I always ask "what did it look like, what color hue?" The usual answer is red and blue, what was that thing? There was this family vacation where I was presumed dead My older brother, a friend and I climbed up the back of Half Dome We made it up Quarter Dome easily and wanted to push ahead Half Dome was unreachable, six degrees of granite stone We decided to go down it's face, through slides and lips Cold winds chilled us as the sunshine elapsed As darkness finally came, we found ledge where we could sit Stuck halfway down, we blamed each other as the night passed Suddenly we saw distant flashlights, a rescue team? We yelled A group of five climbers made their way over to us They thought we were a rescue team, sent up when night fell Finding only three kids who had absolutely nothing They questioned us, where was our spotlight, ropes and pins? After a full inquisition about our flood light, they quit talking At daybreak we all repelled down in an eerie silence Finally down, we all shook hands, no one had died Blue lipped, weak and in disbelief, we bowed to pray This halo had got us back to camp, where mom and dad cried A hundred search and rescue had searched night and day The reality of this aura is undeniable A thousand close calls and brushes with death Everyone has said it's just indefinable Turning my head in time or steering East instead of West I live day to day with a bullet in my spine, it's true My back feels like a constant third degree sunburn All the doctors could say was "Oh jeez, lucky you" Pastors would come to pray over me, all in turn This went on for weeks, until one even threw holly water I barked "father, you do this to everyone here?" He replied "you have a gift, we travel many miles to see your shimmer" They had come just to see me, he left and I cried so many tears My eyes still water up when I think about those days There are no lessons here on how to escape fate I can't even claim this glowing stays the same Just my story of faith, light and how I was saved
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