IHOP Ramblings
Wow, I haven't touched this thing in a while. I guess I figure now I have something to say, and tomorrow I'l be heading back to Mississippi for a few days, where no one can get a hold of me. So I guess at least for that time, I'll keep up with this, just so people will know how I'm doing.
So last night I was stitting up at IHOP with a good friend, holding a borrowed pen. So I took a napkin and began to write, and this is what flowed out of me.
Usually, I'm a Stars kinda girl. When I look up, I'm looking for little bright points, tiny peepholes to elsewhere. But tonight...I look up and the Moon just grabs me. It's like She reached down and took hold of my face and forced me to look Her in the eye, the way you do to a child who's done something wrong and knows it. Maybe I've been neglecting her too long. Spent so much time chasing Stars, I've forgotten what I really am. I'm a Moon-Child. She reminded me of that tonight, sure as nothing else. When she looked at me, She filled me up. I'd been wearing out, wearing thin. Don't know how she knew that, but I guess a Mother always knows these sort of things. She was just so big up there...reminding me of where my real place is. Helping me remember that no matter where I am, I always have a home in the Moonlight. Maybe I'll turn this all into a poem sometime, but right now I'm so full of her I can only speak in my own plain voice.
So last night I was stitting up at IHOP with a good friend, holding a borrowed pen. So I took a napkin and began to write, and this is what flowed out of me.
Usually, I'm a Stars kinda girl. When I look up, I'm looking for little bright points, tiny peepholes to elsewhere. But tonight...I look up and the Moon just grabs me. It's like She reached down and took hold of my face and forced me to look Her in the eye, the way you do to a child who's done something wrong and knows it. Maybe I've been neglecting her too long. Spent so much time chasing Stars, I've forgotten what I really am. I'm a Moon-Child. She reminded me of that tonight, sure as nothing else. When she looked at me, She filled me up. I'd been wearing out, wearing thin. Don't know how she knew that, but I guess a Mother always knows these sort of things. She was just so big up there...reminding me of where my real place is. Helping me remember that no matter where I am, I always have a home in the Moonlight. Maybe I'll turn this all into a poem sometime, but right now I'm so full of her I can only speak in my own plain voice.