i suppose you’d find it hard to believe that at my age i can easily climb to my treehouse but i can and do it’s where i go to be alone with my thoughts trying to make sense of the senseless or finish a dream that i didn’t want to end i’ve been going there for years whenever life becomes chaotic or just too depressing for words i go there for a little r&r now if for some reason you can’t recall your childhood treehouse or hiding place you may want to increase your cognitive load and reconstruct it you’d be surprised how much magical healing is still there
our lives are sometimes ruled by inertia events occur because they were set in motion years ago and we chose not to stop going in what we knew was the wrong direction such decisions leave the bitter taste of what if lingering in our thoughts especially as we grow older gradually slowing to a stop
so here we are standing in the middle of the road not sure how we all got here but i know this doesn’t end well some people are busy on their iphones or ipads others wander off the road for awhile traveling or working on one thing or another but everyone returns to the road i must admit available time has not until recently been a factor in my decisions and i suspect the rest of the folks on this road are the same otherwise why would we all be standing in the middle of the road
the old man’s smile has not changed over the years tho it comes less often now he spends his days repairing an old boat that surely will never sail again nor will he ever be able to handle her at sea yet he continues to love as only lovers could understand for though what is remembered can never be as it was before the love has not changed and he still remembers
slow shadow dancing the streets of rio where promises have died and dreams are just graffiti scrolled across a church wall a heart’s sadness plays from a mandolin while a guitar offers chords of hope both know the tune all too well how love fades and lovers lose what love they had all that is left is slow shadow dancing
Read Between the Minds 