Band Of Campers

2016-04-12T15:51:30.461000Z

Photo by picjumbo.com

Never sit still.

We had talked about this forever and now was the big day we were meeting up with the whole group and taking off for the last times of our lives, the best times of our lives, the worst times all mixed up because we had planned to spend the rest of our know time on the Road.

I am a Man raised on the streets of Los Angeles with a bus pass in my hand. I knew I loved the adventure before I even knew what it meant. The bus was freedom, in that day they called the bus system the RTD or Rapid Transit District of course there was nothing rapid about it. I am 5'8" on a good day. Most of my days lately have not been good. I got use to being on my own determining the path choosing what and where. When it is just you there is no one to blame if something goes awry. We choose how we feel and lately I have felt stuck.

My wife picked me and that seemed weird for a minute until I knew she would put up with the crazy shit I did. I had this vision I saved a girl from her situation and she fell madly in love with me and we lived happily traveling the seas. I was a man of the sea the beach the sand the water the waves. I would gladly sail the ocean blue in a quest for something new. Violetta before we got married would smile as if the world depended on it for sustenance. Her eyes and all her being glowed and I never thought I had a shot with girl because my friend told me she had a boyfriend. That is until she asked me to Marry her over the phone one Saturday when the deepest of pits had swallowed me whole and I could not see a light in any direction. She burst into my life and changed it from the beginning and I could not be happier. I have noticed that I am a ugly grouch. She is a beautiful flower that smells just as sweet, Some people get upset when they see naked flesh but not when they see my wife. I think people are not opposed to the naked body as long as it looks good. When a ugly fat man decides to take off his clothes the police are called! My wife has never been restricted by the places she has been it has always been more about the places we will see together.

I can see the generations in your gaze

I can smell your beauty and I am pleased

I can see your heart planted firmly on your sleeve

I want to save you when in fact you saved me

I bask in the softness of your skin

Where I leave off you begin

Now my demons speak obsessed with the flesh, smoke of the plant, and wine of the Brain. Escape is not just a word that one speaks of in hushed tones escape is a place where one goes to rest, a journey that might not be the best for us to idolize sure you usually get off just where you started but sometimes you end up somewhere anywhere nowhere anyone would want to go. My demons attack me when I am down they attack me when I am in a place of extreme gladness and joy, celebrate they say to me you deserve it for what you have done. only I have done nothing as of yet only siting on the north side shore of life watching it all pass away.

BandofCampers

Band Of Campers