"The distance felt from one to another does not take long to set in. Travels that one will take will be far and exciting and sometimes, unanswered prayers are for the best."

- Christopher Chapman ©

The truth lies within the words of a sentence, a phrase, a poem. With each word, the reader looks into the soul of the writer. The reader is granted permission to enter into the gates of the writers mind, the wonders that are told developed from the ability to reach deep down inside and pull out feelings and allow the world to see them, “going forth into the night as a soldier into a fight, bold and branded, the soldier rages on.” The writer in many ways feels the same as he sits in front of his laptop or journal, writing, pouring out his feelings, ideas, opinions, heartaches and fighting the demons. Wars that he cannot stop, pain that he cannot heal with his words. However, his mind flows onto the paper or screen in the form of a language that only he knows, hoping that he can bring some joy and happiness to himself and to his readers. Like the love that he still has for an angel, so far away from his reach that a touch from her would send his heart into convulsions spewing with compassion and yearning to hold her just one more time! To touch her skin of porcelain, her eyes dark peering into his soul, wrapping her arms around him, holding him tight. Their hearts beating in a harmonic rhythm like that of smooth jazz in a nightclub down on the bayou. Steady and passionate praying the sun will take its time rising so that he does not have to let her go. Therefore, he tells himself every day, that he must rage on, to remember the good times, even though those memories hurt the most.

The truth lies within the words of a sentence, a phrase, a poem. The reader just has to listen.