i entered a poetry contest as a joke, then forgot about it. then about six weeks later, i got an email back saying they chose my poem to be published in their quarterly book! i filled out the necessary paperwork...and forgot about it again until the quarterly came in the mail earlier this week. i'm a published poet...and it was a JOKE!! *sigh* here's the poem:
I am cowering before the night
The darkness hides my deepest dread
Terror threatens to overwhelm
All I am inside
Can anyone even hear me
Won't anyone come
I am frightened of the darkness in my mind
Please, someone, come and
Save me from my fear
Now I hear a voice saying to
Stand and face my fear
I am not on my own
Someone is with me I cannot see
I will stand before the night
I will not fall
I am not on my own
I can face my fear
in other news, i somehow worked up the courage to take my two littlest sisters (age 8 and 6) to the movies and the beach...by myself. i think i lost my mind momentarily when i volunteered to take them to the beach. i was already taking them to the movies, then i figured, "hey, what the heck, i'm babysitting anyway, so i'll just take them to the beach." my sisters are very energetic, to put it mildly. my littlest sister is almost as bad as my boyfriend's little brother. however, they behaved very well and were extremely happy that i took them. if they keep behaving like that, i may start doing stuff like that more often.
as a last tidbit, i've started going to wednesday night services at my boyfriend's church. at first when i started going, i was somewhat nervous and uncomfortable, and didn't know what to expect. i've started getting more used to it now (though i've yet to contribute to any discussion we've had, whether i've had something to offer or not). what still throws me sometimes is the fact that at a PROTESTANT denomination's service, CATHOLIC saints are discussed. i just find it more than a little odd. the first two weeks, we discussed st. john of the cross and st. bernard of clairvoux. yesterday, the selection was from francois fenelon, a Protestant pastor (makes a little more sense to me), but next week we'll be discussing a selection from st. augustine's confessions, and the week after that we'll be discussing thomas merton (Catholic), a trappist monk who died in 1968. *blinks* i did look through the different selections, and the book that has these selections has about half to two-thirds coming from the doctors and fathers of the Church, and the rest coming from Protestant writers. i don't know if this is typical of Protestants, but it still sorta throws me once in a while.
anyhoo, that's it for now. valete.
-enna
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