Looking through your own eyes
like rain covered windows
as you stare out of them
wondering where your mind wandered.
The brush that lays stagnant
once filled with paint and inspiration
collects but does not create.
The room once filled with notes
a display of music
as fingers danced across the strings and keys
now quiet.
When has my mind became the labyrinth
once filled with passions
now consumed with empty responsibility?
How do you see the stars when you look at the sky? Do your eyes draw lines to connect the dots? Mine do.
How does each person you pass come off to you? Do you see an ethereal glow around them of varying glow and intensity? Your mood can cause me to see you in colors sometimes.
Do you see the streaks of light as the cars race past you on the road? Maybe that's just my cones and rods messing up the signals.
Do you see the changing hues of the leaves as the seasons change? Not the very obvious green to red but the fading of the green as the chloroplast dies off inside and it no longer produces the green tones.
Existence and everything it includes is left up for so very many interpretations from so many hundreds of thousands of prying eyes.
The only reason we have come to interpret things in specific manners is because somewhere down the line before we came into existence somebody said that is how it is.
When you first open your eyes, before you have allowed anyone to take hold of your mind and persuade you to react in a particular way, how do you see the world? How do you feel it should be?
Sometimes it's like we live in a world parallel to 'The Giver'. Where there are higher powers that decide what we should and should not get to know or see. We should try to break free of that, don't you think?
War.
It's inevitable.
Even beyond the human species. We just tend to be the most devastating producers of it. Especially as our technology has advanced.
Many soldiers have lost their lives before their prime fighting for what they felt was a just cause. Some of those causes we may have come to realize at this point down the line weren't completely what we once thought, but in the moment, we generally stick with what our heart tells us.
Today, in America, it is a time for us to remember those who have fought valiantly for the people they hold dear as well as those they never had the chance to meet. We thank those men and women who have had the strength and courage to fight those battles. We acknowledge that some of those battles are not over for everyone who has given a piece of themselves to the cause. We pray for those that continue to fight for the greater good. We hope for a time when we will no longer have to say goodbye to our loved ones who go to end a dispute with people just looking to have the same opportunities in life as us.
Thank you to all our armed forces and especially our veterans <3
