DEATH

It can creep up so fast. A shiver in the night, then gone. A pain in the chest, wheezing, choking, then no more breath. A five letter word that implies so much. It is close friends with Emptiness, Hurt, and Vast Voids. Its favorite time to show up is when things seem to be going so well. But, by its presence, things go spiraling down. There is no way to stop or beat it, it just comes when it feels. A train in full throttle with no engineer. The most unnatural thing one may ever face. What comes after, not many know. For when they know they no longer can tell. One five letter word that affects so many. One five letter word that sends men crazy, women to fear, and children to weep. One five letter word, DEATH.

CHANGE

I've heard it said that change often comes swift, hard, and pain usually follows. Well right now I'm at a point in my life where suddenly everything is about to change and I don't know what to do about it. In the next year I will have moved out of my Grandparents house, into a dorm, and will be on my way to a Collage life. I'M SCARED!!! It's not that I don't like the idea of change, it's just that all of a sudden I am realizing it's time for me to grow up. No more putting things off because I figure someone else will get to it. Nope, it's now my time to face reality. When you're a kid it seems like life can't touch you, like you can do anything in the world. Come on who hasn't ever dreamed of flying a plane? It's when you realize that your almost to the end of the runway and you don't have enough momentum to take off that's when you run into problems.That's when we come to a screeching halt. Right now I would say I've reached the end of my runway, without taking off. However this plane can be turned around, and perhaps then it will have the power. And maybe, just maybe, change is the way to turn around the plane for take off. We will have to see.