Reading:
"I have always felt life first as a story, and if there is a story, [we remind the world] there is a story teller." - G.K. Chesterton

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Writing:

July 11, 2008 - 25th Birthday
Based on the contents of the Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 1, and on the reality that youth get kicked out of the youth services system on their 25th birthday.

The only comfort
is knowing that you're
all alone.
What a frightening security to hold on to
as you're dropped into the ocean with
a mere lifeboat.

The only belonging is
to yourself.
Strangers frown beside you as you
continue the next leg if
you're lucky.

The body and soul are between life and death
again. And again.

Who is left to pay up for
wracked up sins and devastating mistakes (not all yours)
but you?

Who will kick away the devil's trap,
free you from bondage, even if
one knot at a time?
There's no time left.
Blistered hands and feet that have walked
much
too
long
do not help.

The watches of the day that unwound the
terrors of the night
now stop
with a sad shake of head.
There is no will to stop the hair pulling,
the tear spilling.

Salvation seems lifetimes ago.

No assurance now of anything.
No word of courage to make the preposterous possible.
You live only
to live alone.