Yay poetry.  Here are a couple I wrote a while ago.  I should write more; I don't do enough creative stuff.


Sheep

The road of gold is stretched before your feet,
The selfsame road continues far behind.
The path is not so hard to walk along,
Though rather boring, offering no new sights.

Still you are sure
That o'er the hill,
Around the bend,
Far off ahead--
Will lie a change.

But as you mount the hill and round the bend,
You find that nothing different lies ahead,
Though still inside your head you keep on thinking
That somehow there must be a way to change.

And passing all the gray and silent people,
The sounds of footfalls echoing through your head,
You start to realize that this road will go
Ahead of you on to infinity.

The road before you and the road behind
Are alike in every single little way.
So you survey the edge and look far down,
Considering the jump and then the fall.

How would it be to take that step of faith?
And would it hurt to fall so very far?
The questions rush around inside your brain,
And so you shut them out and take a chance.

As you take the step,
Leaving the endless golden road,
You realize that the edge holds no fall,
But a different path, with choices all your own.

After looking back at all the people,
Still caught amid the rat-race of their lives,
You turn about and head down your own path,
The escape from the road of the herd.


A Prayer for Ideas

Oh, form in us a curious heart,
That we forevermore may raise
Ideas that so quickly dart
Forever trapped within a maze.

Ideas that we hold within,
Protected from the cruel world,
Die, never to be seen again,
Never raised, like flags unfurled.

Remind us that ideas, like we,
Need air and light and love to grow.
So we must ever set them free,
That they may flourish, for we know:

A thought inside will surely die,
But one set free finds wings to fly.

Meh, I'll run again next election.  I feel that I should be a more active member before running.

Considering the intense lack of interest in my campaign, I will drop out of the current election and be more active in the forum before running for this position.  Good luck to all the other candidates!

I would have to agree about the music thing.  Music is such a huge part of my life; I'm in choir, an a cappella group, and will be getting a minor in music.  Plus I play piano and compose.  I don't know what I'd do without music.  But I have to wonder: if I had never been able to appreciate music, would I miss it?  Somehow I doubt it.  But who knows?

Yes, that will change.  I posted very little on Pixelation for a long while, but came out of the woodwork later and had a respectable post count when the forum died.  I've been relatively quiet here so far, but I plan to be more active if elected.  Actually, I should probably be more active even if not elected, but that's not the point of the question.  So, to sum up my ramble, yes.