08: Chapters

I look back through the many chapters of my life and I see the glimpses in between the confusion. That tiny meteor shower of myself amongst the darkness. That small wave of my faith up against someone else’s.

The life that I always wanted dangling in front of me in my own stories and songs that I had written. The love I always knew sat two feet from me but I never reached for it. There was something better. There was always something better. Some mystical place of stars and blue skies at the same time. I dreamed it. I created it.

Finally, after the shouting of disappointed opinions around me had faded into the background noise I could hear the faint echo of what I always knew, “This is yours. It’s always been yours. Take it.”