New Beginning

      I was all ready to write one of my usual humor-interjected articles this morning as I sat here reflecting on my first week on Gather, when I decided to do something a bit different.  Those who have been reading my entries are beginning to grow acustomed to my style...and I do enjoy putting a smile on your faces; to make you chuckle or outright laugh out loud.  And I'll continue to do so in the future.  That is but one face of mine.  Then I thought to myself, why not turn my head and allow others to see another side of this man.

      I have many emotions inside; emotions that had remained bottled up for year upon year.  I can be comedic and enjoy that part of my persona the most.  I've also showed I have no fear expressing love.  That, in itself, is something so new to me, but I'm enjoying doing so immensely now that I have someone who means enough to me in my life to share such feelings with.  Though I am a male, I do have a softer side...and I ain't talkin' Sears here. 

      As I looked at myself sitting here with F.N. Kat sitting in my lap, curled up enjoying the warmth emitting from my body on this cold winter morning; stroking his fur enjoying the calming effect it has, I decided to present to you some prose and let you decide how well-rounded of an individual I am...and here's what I came up with......

                                                       New Beginning

New beginning, new life, a new day's dawn

Love lost, time to move on with all old gone

People you knew once; the job, it must go

With wide open eyes, awake you pass low

The harsh turns so soft wings of morning dove

From deep down under you turn to above

Sun now changes skies bright light one more day

Evolve to another you can't delay

Time, it has arrived, it feels just so right

Last eve is far gone, diff'rent from tonight

You are a phoenix, from ashes you rise

Grasp from the past, yea, before it all dies

Have self control, only you are in charge

Take almost nothing and turn it so large

Now to dwell back behind you trek ahead

We all must do it and learn from the dead

Once it's over and you're laid down to rest

No more time to choose and do what is best

Seize the moment now, too late when you're gone

New beginning, new life, a new day's dawn

      I've gone through this cycle several times in my life...making changes; some for the better, some were mistakes.  I have come to yet another crossroad and am switching directions which I know is for the better.  My best friend has entered the same intersection, is making a turn to traveling down a new path by my side.  Though we have a rich history with one another and our friendship is an old one, we take one another's hand and begin our walk into a new beginning.