Mandatory Blog Here

This is such a hard time of the year for me. I posted a entry yesterday joking how I am down because I have no one to dress up for Halloween but that is only part of it. That is me joking my way out of a blue mood. I hate this time of year Its getting cold Another summer has come and gone and I didn’t get super fit like I said I would Daylight hours get shorter Fall taxes are due End of year taxes are going to be due soon. Christmas expenses are coming up. My birthday is coming up and I am going to be older There are so many things to get depressed over and whine about if I really wanted too. Normally I do get the blues this time of year. I don’t any more though. Because two years ago my friend lost her dear little boy to a tragic accident Read the story here. http://www.wftv.com/news/14504549/detail.html You can read a poem I wrote about witnessing her grief here. http://mandatorybloghere9.blogspot.com/2008/11/witness.html You can see his memorial here http://cayden.huels.muchloved.c

Witness My friend walks a dark path She didn’t take it by choice It’s a forced march I walk along side her Not close but near. My way is full of sunshine and rainbows She cries a lot and sometimes can’t move on She wants to lie down and give up but she knows she can’t do that I can see her over there I see her pain But my own path, you know, the sun gets in my eyes I can’t see all the terrible things on her oddessy I can’t know what terrors or demons she is battling She cries out to me now and then and tries to explain I see her struggle wanting to go back from where she came I try to listen but she knows I can’t really understand Sometimes there are little glimpses of sunshine They are fleeting and far between She stops to enjoy them a bit But then remembers She has to start all over again She spends a lot of time wondering how or why she ended up on this path She watches and is envious of others of their bright smiles and hope filled journeys. She use to walk along with us before her