As Echoes work you will find that what comes back could be entirely different sounds…
Such as when you are:
Lost At Sea (Finding your way back)
You travel the ocean and admire all it has to offer,
Family, friends, familiar places, sights and sounds.
One day you discover you are Lost at Sea,
Not due to storms, not due to mechanical malfunctions just lost,
In your mind, you know you can find the way back. In your heart the message is undulating and
Off to the distance. Upon returning, you discover your surroundings are not familiar anymore,
You set course to return to you point of origin, and know you have
Reached your destination, only to discover, as familiar
As the place may have been, or how much you know about it, even the memories you
Retain from the area, you realize you are Lost at Sea and can never return!
There will never be any explanation of why, even though there will always
Be a clear path to your destination.
Once there it will be unknown, a place
That no longer provided the comfort of home, the peace that once existed or
Family, friends, and sights that you once knew.
The Sea that provided a place of calmness and serenity is lost to a vast ocean of apprehension and hopelessness.
The currents are at your port, the tides are streaming behind you, and the North Star is
In full view, but somehow the waves you rode are now gone.
But from the Echo, what you may hear instead once you filter out all the negatives may be something like this instead;
Set your sails to family, to the new moon, to stars you have missed in Life, as being Lost is never as wonderful as being found! Unstrap yourselves from broken navigational gear, from false readings; from faintly lite skies, and set your sails free in order to be who you are. We are all born, free, with choices, with navigation built in; many times conditions are placed on us that lock the freedoms we once had, remove them and sail into the sunset and see the sunrises.
At the time of this writing, my book was done, only three more chapters to finish as far as editing. I feel like I have said all I need and the words no longer flow as they once did. So this poem and message are somewhat hid due to it may not be exactly what I wanted to say but to those that find it, perhaps it will give them inspiration.
Lastly here is one more item!
Ingredients in Life! (How to Bake a Sicilian Life):
Love,
Disappointment,
Family and Friends
Enemies and despair
Fun and Joy,
Sorrow and Grief
Happiness and mischievousness
Sadness and dullness
Rain, sunshine, dancing and singing
Food and days of deprivation
There is no secret, no plan, no way of going forward without learning what has passed, For the past holds the key to your future!
But God knows that each day planned is a day that is only a day and not a lifetime, He also knows that while baking the goodness of Life that sometimes ingredients in life are missing but does that to help you realize that without all the ups in downs in life you would not bake until done.
“Every day is a wonderful meal to enjoy! Taste it, live it, enjoy it, go out and have a feast”!
Breathe in life and exhale with wonder! (Inspirare ed espirare vita con stupore!)
DS recipe for life…