You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, then stop to enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital. It’s a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you’re eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder but…. On the way back to your plane, you discover […]
Essence of My Dreams
by John O’Brien, Jr.
Deep within my soul
I hear you calling.
I reach, and only can grasp air.
Novellas in your eyes
forged through hardships
tempered in the ecstasies of life -
balancing, always balancing.
An image so concrete, I can smell your skin,
taste your lips, feel your touch
and in those drowsy hours between the dawn,
and the coming of […]