Sunday 3 May 2009

TAKEN FLIGHT

ONE DAY GOD SENT ME A MESSAGE, THAT IS TO CARRY OUT HIS WORKS. HE ALSO SENT ME ANOTHER MESSAGE, THAT WAS TO CARRY FORTH HIS GIFTS. WITH BREAD AND WATER PACKED IN MY BAG, I WENT ON A JOURNEY A PLACE VERY FAR AWAY FROM ALL THAT WAS LOST, POLLUTED, UNRECOGNISABLE, A PICTURE INFACT NOT OF WATER COLOUR BUT OF CHALK AND CHARCOAL. I WALKED AND WALKED AND WALKED. TRAVELLING THROUGH THE IMMENSE HEAT, SWEATING, UNCONTROLLED BREATHING, RESTLESSNESS, DEHYDRATION AND FATIGUE, WITH THE HEAT SO INTENSE IN HUMIDITY I FOUND MYSELF BODY COVERED IN GOOSEBUMPS. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF VEGETATION, NOT A SINGLE LIVING SOUL, NOT EVEN A TREE BLOWING IN THE WIND. FOR ALL THAT WAS LIVING HAD DRAUGHTED. I BEGAN TO FEEL FAINT, I COLLAPSED TO THE FOOR AND LAID THERE FOR HOURS. THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN I LAID IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS LONG WINDED PATH I COULD NOT SEE BEYOND. THE MISTY HEAT HAD MADE MY VISION INCOMPLETE. TIME PAST, HOURS IN FACT AND BY THEN, THE CRACK OF DAWN HAD REACHED ME AGAIN. TO MUCH OF MY SURPRISE, THE HEAVENS BROKE OUT, IT WAS LIKE A CRACK AMONGST CLOUDS IN THE SKY JUST LIKE A CRACK YOU SEE ON A WORN OUT PAVEMENT. I FELT A SPITTER ON MY CHECK WHICH MADE MY EYES BLINK. THEN CAME ANOTHER SPITTER, THEN ANOTHER, THEN ANOTHER. THE ATMOSPHERE AND TEMPERATURE OF WHERE I WAS LAID HAD SUDDENLY FELT SO FRESH LIKE A GENLE BREEZE BLOWING IN THE WIND AGAINST MY FACIAL. SO IT POURED, PLANTED SEEDS BEGAN TO GROW HOPE, PEACE, LOVE AROUND THE GLOBE. I FELT REVITILISED ONCE MORE. I HAD LEFT YESTURDAY TO BE BLESSED TO SEE ANOTHER DAY. BUT THIS TIME IT WAS WHAT I WAS WAITING FOR TO TELL ME TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP AND TAKE FLIGHT.