Deadliest Catch
I fished a place like no other place
you will ever find on earth;
a place where the hard work and danger
can and should reflect a man's worth.
I fished a place where the hours long,
sleep, rare, if at all.
A place where even the strong
sometimes, stumble and fall.
I fished a place where you spent countless hours
pulling countless pots.
A place where the memories of her back home
is thought with countless thoughts.
I fished a place
where the weather can turn,
bad, in a blink of an eye.
A place where those who'll get hurt.
Some will even die.
I love this place,
and the pride it has given me.
You see,
very few people on the face of this earth can say
"I've crab fished on the berring sea".
- Larry Riser (Deadliest Catch)
"Hope-ing in a shadow"
Day beckons in my world when the ball of fire rises
yet Day never comes.
In my world, - shadows abound -
humans have eyes of stone and hearts only of gold.
And then I ask:
Is life still worth living?
In my world, - time is created -
yet time is never enough measure of worth.
Dusk is but a shadow of my twilight,
always evading, always eluding
and never appearing.
But alas, are my eyes, too, darkened by shadows?
Although the earth has turned foul,
and the leaves are withered and weathered by savages,
the stem is still green and a tiny, almost unnoticable little bud
appears; and it is there.
Everytime I try to sink into the murk
wings soaking up fire from the sky pull me up.
And thus, I live to give this world another chance.
