Sunday, March 16, 2025

Where do I go today?

 I like to believe that there's a memory behind every wrinkle. The deeper the wrinkles, the clearer the memory.

Mike 2025


Where do I go today? Old age has caught up with me, and most of my travels are done in the comfort of my home. The glorious thing about memories is that you can call upon them anytime to come out to play. Just close your eyes and feel yourself soaring high into the sky on your backyard swing. No fear as the poles come out of the ground, and you give it one last push and become one with the sky.

Where do I go today? Into the belly of the destroyer, where I lost my childhood and charged head-first into manhood. I went to ports of call where history books I had read just a few weeks ago became real, and when I found myself so far from home, I wondered if I'd ever see American soil again.

Where do I go today? Maybe to my wedding day, if I can remember it through the blood-stained eyes of last night's bachelor party, which left no stone unturned. Throughout the years, I stopped and smiled as another memory came out to play with an old man who never grew too old to imagine.

Where do I go today when so many memories compete for a place at today's table? How do I quiet them down, those memories trying to outdo the others for my attention? That answer comes with sleep as I doze off for the third time today, choosing just one memory to dwell on.

Where do I travel in my dreams when so many places are yet to be revisited? I go home, where the best memories of all wait for me, as family and friends beckon me to follow them into my most profound memory of them all.

Mike 2025                                                


1 comment:

  1. Never stop making new memories and writing them down. They are wonderful.

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