Edward J Scaglione

THE NEXT PLACE I GO... The next place I go will be as peaceful and familiar as a sleepy summer Sunday and a sweet untroubled mind. And yet it won't be anything like any placeI've ever been or seen or even dreamed of in the place I leave behind. I wont Tumble through the always and look back towards the when. I'll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why. I won't remember getting there. Somehow I'll just arrive. But I'll know thatI belong there and will feel much more alive than I ever felt before. I will be absolutely free of the things that I held onto thet were holding onto me. The next place that I go will be so quite and so still that the whispered song of sweet belonging will rise up and fill the listening sky with joyful silence, and with unheard harmonies of music made by no one playing, like a hush upon a breeze. There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light.Where an ever-dawning morning pushes back the dying night. The next place that I go won't really be a place at all. There won't be any seasons- winter, summer, spring or fall-Not a Monday, nor a Friday, nor December, nor July. And the seconds will be standing still--- while hours hurray by. I will not be a boy or girl, a woman or a man, I'll simply be just , simply me. The body I once lived in won't be part of me at all. I will finally be perfect. I will never make one more mistake or break the smallest law. And then the me that was impatient, or was angry or unkind will simply be a memory. The me I left behind . There is not a single thing I have collected in my life that I would ever want to bring except the love of those who loved me. and the warmth of those who cared. Through I know the joy of solitude I'll never be alone. I'll be embraced by all the family and friends i"ve ever known. Although I might not seetheir faces, all our hearts will beat as one, and the circles of our spirts will shine brighter than the sun. I will cherish all the friendships I was fortunate to find, all the love and all the laughter in the place I leave behind. All these good things will go with me. And that light will shine forever in the next place I go. Love Daddy