Blessings and Memories

As most of you know I wont be going home for Thanksgiving this year, and although I know I'll have a good holiday where ever I end up going the thought has made me extremely homesick. I can't really express how much. So instead of focusing on that, I am counting my blessings everyday as a countdown to turkey day :D It is a trick to come up with something new everyday when I've listed everything I can think of already. ;) So for Bri (she is not going to Vancouver either, this will be both of our first Thanksgivings away from home) and me, I am posting an old poem of mine. I hope my family knows I am there with them in spirit for the holiday! I love you all and hope I see you for Christmas!

Memoria

I ride home on the sun as she sinks beneath the mountains,

And I remember laughter.

My tears dissolve on her flames

And I remember song.

I feel her warmth envelope me

And I remember hope.

I ride home on the sun as she sinks beneath the mountains,

And watch the golden clouds play visions of the living.

My sorrow is drowned in her happiness

And I watch the rivers wink a fond farewell.

I let her light surround me

And watch as the world dissappears in shadow.

I ride home on the sun as she sinks beneath the mountains,

And hear the sighs of children as they are laid to sleep.

My cries are lost in the sound of her music

And I hear the earth say good-bye in the sound of cicada's.

I am filled with the peace of the evening

And I hear the stars shout good morning to the moon.

I ride home on the sun as she sinks beneath the mountains,

And I feel the release of drifting into sleep.

My pain is forgotten in the dreams she leaves behind us,

And I feel the full force of her joy in the night.

I walk into her world of sunshine and silence

And I feel it has all been a dream...