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When would I like to have lived? That is not a question easily answered. If I were to break it down into it's simplest form I would have to say I would like to have lived forever.
I would like to have lived in the past. In this past I would have wanted to meet several people that the time of my birth denied me the chance of meeting.
I would have liked to run with the Indians, touch my heritage. I would have loved to see the Buffalo running free and learn how to make my clothing from their hides. I still have that dream and it is yet unrealized. I suppose I would have to use deer skin today.
I often wonder to myself what I would be were I with my people. Would I be a healer? I often vision myself as a shaman. I have always thought it eerie that I can see beyond things, into things, and people. I wonder if this is my Indian side of me or is it something more?
After that I would like to visit with Edgar Allen Poe. We would have tea or a nip of something stronger and just talk. I would find out if Lenore was real and of the Raven who spoke of "Nevermore". I would want to see beyond those eyes and find out what caused such tortured thoughts.
Then I would like to meet Jim Morrison, my inspiration, in so many ways. I would like to see him before the fame and after. I would like to be his friend and yes, even his lover, if he found me desirable enough. He is not a God like some say but he just had an ability to see things deeper than most. I sometimes feel I share that vision.
I would also like to go to Woodstock. No not the most recent poorly managed recreation of it but the real Woodstock. I would give anything to be there, to see Janis Joplin live and feel more deeply than I already do, the essence of her music. I would love the freedom to be naked, in the rain, and mudwrestle with someone I don't even know.
After all that I would be more content where I am now, in this time, knowing the people I know, loving those that I do, lusting after those that I do both famous and not so famous. Feeling the great sorrow of the world and hoping somehow to change it. Sharing my perspective on this life and what it means to be alive.
I would also like to be around into the future. I want to see where the human race will go. Will it be like Star Trek? No need for money because replicators make all you need. Alien beings which to me would not seem so alien, just different.
I would wish to see what will have happened after I am gone. When I am nothing more than some faded memories of words spoken on yellowed paper and a photograph well worn that was looked at over and over by someone out there who loved me...
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