This poem was inspired by an experience I had flying a helicopter across an icy Alaska bay in horrible weather. Luckily, and because of my good training, I made it to the other side.
The music grew louder, softer, the perfect pitch
From the fog gray front between heartbeat and not.
Committed? Yes!
What a slippery slope decisions and such,
And gravity the arbiter.
I am the test
Bravado no better than calm and sense of purpose.
Focus
Feel the waves alive within
Dare to trust.
The music serene, sublime, if even music there was.
Aware of all possible outcomes–
Frigid water, cold knowledge of people left behind
Eternally important.
But the music is life and together we dance,
The harmony so smooth, so clear
And nothing else.
Then, after a lifetime and no time
And then, after enduring all that could have been
Oh sweet land–
My smile
My reward,
Where all my love resides.
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