ONCE IN A WHILE!
Wow,
I used to dream about walking even before I could crawl. Walking and running equaled
seven letters for seven to me as a baby long before I could even count one!
Dreaming and closing my eyes was like fighting
for my life as I pushed back against this intoxicating sleep induced by a full tummy.
What is this?
Why
am I surrounded by a bunch of uneducated
people who do not understand my heavenly baby language? Once in a while, the
baby in me believed I lived in a UFO terrestrial.
To be surrounded and stared
at with affectionate emotions zapping this tinged feeling which always left me
giggling uncontrollably.
Once
in a while I chased feelings and emotions I thought I didn’t possess in my baby
world. Like they used to say, only time will tell… this and that, before I
could identify the clock on the wall.
Once in a while is like
trying to catch and walk back the fast moving thought which fascinated me for a
cool ten seconds. Once in a while, is like sleepwalking past a noisy crowd,
everyone sees me but myself.
Once
in a while as young boy I thought the rainbow over the horizon was the end of
the world. Once in a while I used to think the blue skies were the ceiling and
the roof over my universe!
Who can shoot through the
firmament, so I thought before I boarded my first flight?
Wow,
look at all these clouds under my feet and where is the horizon I used to see
from down below?
Once in a while, life
wrestles with life in a never- ending grip for survival. Once in a while, I used
to live in a world turned upside down…. I gave meaning and interpreted everything
in my own words the way I saw it.
Why do
I always confabulate nonchalantly with everyone on things most people easily find
common ground? Am I the only tipsy person on planet earth?
Once in a while looking back, and teasing some
glorious youthful memoirs; I wonder what would have become of my world if I
followed the enticing urges of my youth.
One early evening here comes this attractive
girl, all smiles and radiating with confidence and bravado. Hello. Can we be
friends? Friends as in what way, I asked. Friend as my lover: I dig you for
real now.. she glimmered!
Once in a while I have had to catch a
breath while trying to make sense of this sudden blast from the blue!
Would I be kissing and hugging the same
beautiful kids I cherish today had I mellowed and surrendered to her smitten
heart?
Once in a while, my heart says it would
have been nothing more than just the usual adventures all boys go through in
life.
But nay, my mind strongly disagrees: my world would
have morphed up and caricatured into a universe different to the one I live in
today!
Once in a while I have had to try my heart with
some difficult questions of what ifs and whynots!
Life, like a boomerang: the past you thought is
forgotten and buried behind always props up inadvertently around your dizzy corners!
Once in a while as in once, and always be
what it is…. Once in a while!
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