Journal : OpenRoadWorks

It's been a few months since my trip to Disney with Wendy, and I was remembering all those wonderful memories. What got me was the list of text messages that I sent myself to remember where we parked during the days. Here it goes: + Journey 9 back under the first tram pole + tb1 - self park + Pluto 16 almost at the end of the road + Amaze 31 - right near the front + Dinosaur 30 - first row, about 35 cars down + Film 33 + Pluto 21 near the front! + Dinosaur 34 - about 20 cars down + Happy 87 - bleh, it's 8 cars in from the center It's all coming back - where magic lives and where dreams come true as Disney would say!

What words are used to describe the thoughts that no longer come, Ideas of a prior life that once was brimming with angst and some Ideals chased for the sake of love and beauty. Now the same things trend towards duty Of commitment and relationship, career, Tending home, animals, finances, debts in arrears, Promises replaced by practicalities, Hopes supplanted by fears, Balance subtracted by the same things that gave life instead. What I ponder and somehow dread, That memories chase me like ghosts, Same fears that act as hosts For what captures hopes and turns the scene About what life can mean When “settling down” means more than settling And “taking stock” means more than stock taking. Here it goes, as will suffice, A soundtrack earned at great price Of melody swift through dreams Risen like phoenix from youth, seems So far away to the extent reachable, Today unthinkable, Tomorrow even further from the march Of time immemorial, away from harsh Frame of what inspired these words anyw...