O death, you hypocrite!!!

Haunting those who don't know your secret,
Yet, ignoring those who know you're the OUTLET.
Scared are those thinking you surely are THE END
Praying those, knowing you're the start, a GODSEND.

STOP disguising yourself - a BIG BEAST
In our worries, you ARE,  THE LEAST.
Don't you know every time you try to curse,
it's a blessing, you work in reverse.

It's when God takes back his breath,
Then I will see you and smile
"Thank You Death"

Thoughts On "Metaphor" by Sylvia Plath

Metaphors I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf's big with its yeasty rising. Money's new-minted in this fat purse. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there's no getting off. Sylvia Plath

       The author (Sylvia Plath) does an amazing job creating a challenging literary piece. Straight from the beginning, she starts off the poem with an interesting mystery, by identifying it as a riddle. At first, there is a feeling of anticipation and a hint of confusion within the reading of the metaphors. Once having read the poem all the way through, the metaphors come together and made more sense. She was pregnant. Solving the riddle, the mystery behind the metaphors cleared up, but also left another challenge. Now, i was wondering wether the metaphors were positive or negative feelings.The “elephant” for me brought up words like: big, slow, and awkward (elephant in the room). This seems negative to me, but then comes the fourth line with definite positivity. “O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers”, resembles a worth and desire for her baby. Not being able to compare her emotions , I convinced myself it was a mixture feelings. As a final conclusion on her feelings, I believe she was indeed happy for her baby, but sick and tired of the lingering pregnancy. I derived the concept of her being tired of the pregnancy, because the constant and repeating use of the number nine. There are nine syllables, nine metaphors, nine letters in pregnancy and in metaphors, and of course there is nine months in a pregnancy. This constant returning factor must have played a big role for her. 

Being a man, the emotions she captures aren’t easily understood, but they make sense. The awkwardness of being pregnant (elephant), yet the joy (red fruit, ivory...), and also the embrace (no getting off), are things she captures well, but I will never know what she really felt like. Imagine mixed feelings like this for nine months. I don’t think she was wrong with her feelings. Who wouldn’t love their baby, yet still feel drained and gloomy from a pregnancy? It’s normal. The bible even mentions birth pains, yet the joy of parenting. 

Love is present in this poem. Love to go through the frustration, through the awkwardness, through the nine months, for a life long relationship.

I want people to question reality

If I were to leave a mark on this world, it would be within peoples minds. I've never been a big fan of wanting to build something extravagant in the physical aspect, but I tend to lean towards the unseen. I have a knack in trying to "blow" people's minds. For me, my mind is "blown", whenever I just don't quite know how to comprehend something. Chris Nolan did this to many people with his hit movie "INCEPTION." He deserves much respect, for taking ten years of writing the story, and then also being able to produce a film capturing his exact thoughts. Personally, I am a film fanatic, and Nolan's way of filming and creating images we perceive as one thing, but really being another just "blew" me away. I like being engaged and engaging others to questionable thoughts in any way possible. It's the way the Maker made me. When I have deep conversations with people, I will not constantly throw out my thoughts without thinking them over. (James 1:19) I like my conversations to end, with the other person and even me to leave with food for thought. I want to remembered as a man that challenged and refined people's ideas and beliefs. With a calling of youth ministry on my life, I am looking forward to engaging the youth's minds and really have them start thinking, instead of just listening, and as they listen, that the LORD will blow their minds. I want the youth to question reality as it is. Can earth really be it? Why am I we constantly searching for more? Is Jesus the answer? ... and as they engage in these thought, the LORD will soften their hearts and open their ears to hear the truth, I will speak into them.

If your mind hasn't been "blown" lately, I hope you will enjoy this video (This is Madd Chadd, my favorite Dancer, his form of dancing is called, "technical movement" aka the Robot)