A poem for your thoughts

In starting this blog, I asked myself to be vulnerable, truthful. I had told myself that it doesn't mean sharing every little detail, that I could simply not share things if they were too scary for me to share. Well, this is me realizing, that's not true. I think in order for me to actually fulfill my goal of starting to share myself with the world, I must share everything. And the truth is I enjoy writing, and thinking, and reading. I guess I thought what better way to do all that than posting one of my favorite poems i've written. Here it is: me being vulnerable, sharing a deeply intimate peice of writing, an insight into my thoughts.

A Place Unknown

There is a place I’ve heard of

Where fighters go to make peace

Where haters go to love

There is a place that I will go to breathe

It has a mountain range encircling the big, turquoise ocean

The sun beams down all day, digging into the narrowest crevices of your mind

The wind carries the smell of hyacinth flowers past your salt warmed skin

Sunbaked orange color sea stars line the edge of the tide

The rolling hills of sand reaching just beyond vision

It has a silence of three parts

The first is the slow, rolling sounds of the waves crashing in,

So rhythmic that you don’t even notice it

The second is the sound missing

There are no people there to run around

No people to shriek with excitement or call out to friends and family

In a way it is lonely, but more so calming knowing that you are unseen

Laying on the beaches of your mind, knowing you will never be found

The third sound is bigger than all the rest

It lays within my rapidly unwinding mind

It hides within my unmoving body, giving it the chance to breathe

It is a place I hope to one day find