And Kalipb's friend is Zeus, our dog. Zeus is about 3 years old
(he was a stray in Ohio and about 6 months old when we got him. He's about 3 yrs now.)
Kalipb is a Boy Scout at the Star level and in band at school.
He plays the Baritone Saxaphone.
He's 14 yrs old and has a great sense of humor.
He wants to be a helicopter pilot and a conservation officer when he grows up.
I've added a poem that Kalipb created himself.
(Personally I find it pretty profound considering his age and life experiences.)
Written by Kalipb
December 2002
For the life
And continuing
For love.
Do you know
What the future will hold?
In her grasp I will be
To stay for eternity.
You will be with me
To stay and to think
Of the time to be
In the dark and dreary.
Nothing to do but
Sit and think
Of the past and
Future of years to be.
If we don't think
We will burst
With excitement
For our thirst.
For life itself
We will thirst
Until we burst
With the life we thirst.
O way up there
I just don't see
The starry air.
I see the moon
Bold and bright
Like a wet spoon
In the light.
Then I think
Of the nights to be
If I'll like
The stars I see.
If I don't
Don't despair
There will be other times
To stare up there.
To look up there
In the starry air
It doesn't take much
to have the touch.
Of the creation
Of the imagination.
What do you see
In the starry air?
In the forbidding air
Kindness
Or Hatefullness?
It is not up to me
Hopefully
To know what you think
As long as you don't sink.
Into the world today
The great monster to slay
The world dark and bright
The world in an endless flight.
I wonder if it will snow
On this cold and wonderous night
If it will flow
From the sky tonite.
Will it be deep?
Will it be shallow?
I don't know what will happen
While I sleep.
Do you know
If it will snow
On this Christmas night
To cover the world with the might?
With our without us
To continue her pattern
That she's always done.
We cannot stop her
No matter what
We cannot sway her
From her path.
We can never
Get enough of her
And she is
Never ending.
To fill the world
Is her mission
Never hating
Never loving.
