Ode to Florida

I wrote this a few days back while on a trip back home to visit my family and friends in Florida. I am truly a Floridian at heart, which means that the ocean is so connected to me that it's almost like the sea water runs through my veins and I have a love for seafood.

Ode to Florida

Oh sunshine state here I am back along your white as snow sandy shores and how I have missed you. Believe it or not I have missed your straight and flat roads where one can see for miles. I have missed the feel of the sand between my toes as I walk along your beaches and how it feels when I dip them into the waves. I miss my adventures both on land and in sea, where beneath your waves I would find so many things. The snorkeling quests, the seashell collecting, the dolphin watching and diving underneath your emerald waters. Here I feel as if I am whole once again and no matter where I go I always hold a part of you in my heart. For no matter where I go, I am a Floridian at heart and always will be. Your sunshine and beaches have captured my heart for always. So many memories I have along your shores and so many smiling faces I have met and come to cherish. My church home that always embraced me; my family and friends always by my side. Oh how I have missed you. I hold every single one of you in my heart and think of you often, sending up prayers to heaven. Praying to the good Lord above that He would keep you all safe and help me to not feel so homesick as I live away from home. Instead sometimes, I close my eyes and pretend I’m still right there and I don’t feel quite so far from home anymore. I miss the taste of succulent shrimp and fish caught fresh in your waters. Here all I can get is frozen seafood they pass off as "the best" when I know that is a lie. How can I settle for frozen seafood when so long I have been used to the fresh seafood that came from local waters. Those times of catching fish and frying them in a tasty butter and herb mixture. Oh goodness- how it would delight the senses. I have missed your palm tress and yes even your pine trees believe it or not, though it is nice to have trees where the leaves actually change colors in the Fall up here. Oh and how I have missed your sunsets, because for some reason there’s nothing as beautiful as a Florida sunset and especially when you view it setting over the water. I miss your beach breezes and the smell of the salty sea that I could breathe in deep. I was reunited with you once again and yet now I have had to leave you. Do not worry- I will be back, but you will always be in my heart and on my mind.

Life Blazing By

I found this poem I wrote about a year ago when cleaning out my documents on my computer and decided to rewrite it a little and then post it. It's about how time can fly and sometimes it seems like something just happened yesterday, but you realize that really it's been years. It covers a lot of different situations in life such as the start of a relationship, loss of a close friendship, struggles with family life, and just change in general: because like it or not life will go blazing by.

As Life Goes Blazing By

All these days, life blazing by

Doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day

For all the things I got running through my mind.

Wasn’t it yesterday? How could it be years?

We were so close- wasn’t our friendship real?

Then strangely, as quick as a snap and slow as a lifetime

No longer are we close.

Didn’t I just talk to you yesterday?

Oh, how could it be weeks, months, even years?

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

I’m 19 now- I’m engaged.

Yes I love him- but I’m so afraid.

Don’t wanna see my life move too fast

And before my eyes something gone that I wish could last.

How did I get here? I was just turning 13 yesterday right?

Guys were all jerks just yesterday right?

Oh how could it be years?

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

The screaming- the promises broken-my fresh and bleeding heart

That was just yesterday right?

But no it was years, oh how could it have been years?

When I close my eyes the pain is there like it happened perhaps even today

But the years have come and past and my sorrows are mixed in with the long ago yesterdays.

Yet somehow they still linger with me today.

I looked up to you just yesterday right?

You were my role model- one I desired to be like.

Then in a blink of an eye, it seemed, no longer could I trust you to guide me where I should go.

Didn’t that just happen yesterday?

Oh, how could it have been years?

The bond we used to share did it really slip away through the years?

Or did it just happen yesterday?

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

I'm in my third year of college- how can it be?

Didn't I just start high school yesterday?

Wasn't I just a scared 14 year old walking down the freshman hall yesterday?

And alas I find it's been years, but oh, how could it have been years?

A college degree I have and another one in the making,

But wasn't it just yesterday that these things were only dreams?

How did I get here so fast, so soon?

Ah, but life has gone on and life has flown.

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

Autumn of the Soul

So I was sitting in Sociology class one Tuesday evening and I just started getting inspiration to write something so I started writing a poem in between taking notes. It has to do with starting a new chapter in my life and how God is always there regardless of what changes. I will have to figure out the title of this poem after I finish typing it. I never come up with titles first. I always get struck with inspiration to write and the words just flow onto the page from my head and I know God puts the thoughts in my head. Well hope you enjoy...here goes.

The Crisp leaves on the ground,
they changed colors and then fell down.
Behold, another season has begun,
One in my heart-and some
things, like the leaves that fall,
have come undone.
My life has turned a new page
and I am no longer the same.
Change is coming, change is near.
The inevitable has taken place
and part of me, of who I was,
has disappeared.
I said goodbye to somethings
and hello to the new.
And a new state, a new school,
a new job, well here I am
ready or not.
But through all the new, through
all the change.
One thing remains constant-
The same yesterday, today and forever
My God remains always the same.
Ever constant, ever with me,
His love will remain
through the new season of my life.

Ok I have now decided that the title of this poem should be Autumn of the Soul. Perfect for the new glorious season we are in that is Fall with the beautiful weather. I also totally just added three lines to the end of this as I was typing. Inspiration just comes when I start to write and for this I praise God.