One Day

Perhaps one of my favorite poems that I have written. It's funny how this poem came about. A really close friend of mine recently took a really short journey during which she could not contact me. It just so happened that I was on a longer journey of my own, surrounded by many others undertaking the same journey as myself. This poem is about my close friend, but it is also for everyone who has ever taken a journey far and away from one they hold very close in their heart.

It takes one day
For dark to turn to light to turn to dark.
It takes one day
To understand how deep the world can wound.
It takes one day
For a life to be taken.
It takes one day
To really know how badly you miss someone.

But

It only takes one day
For day to turn to night to turn to day.
It only takes one day
To realize what a joy life is.
It only takes one day
For new life to be given.
It only takes one day
To finally feel true Love for the one you care about most.

Cabin Fever

Recently I have had the pleasure of spending three weeks on the USS Enterprise. This poem is fairly true.

It all starts off grand.
Everyone embarks on a journey to a new and wondrous place.
But minutes turn into hours turn into days.
Their surroundings are less and less mysterious.
New and exotic faces become more and more familiar.
All the fresh jokes grow stale.
And hours turn into days turn into weeks.
They walk the same uninteresting halls morning and night.
What once they saw as familiar faces become boring masks.
The stale jokes turn into insults.
And days turn into weeks turn into months.
Fights break out here and there.
Death’s face passes by on those they once called friends.
Humor serves no place on this lifeless vessel.
And weeks turn into months turn into eternity.