I've become an artist...

There have been days in my life where I wondered what I would become. When I was a kid I won coloring contests and wished that I could grow up to color within the lines. So I became a teacher and did a lot of coloring in the lines. But never did I think that artist would be a title I could apply to myself. While I still don't consider myself an artist in the truly grand sense, I'm going to try to make a go of some of my "art". I doodle. I like it. So, today, here... is a pumpkin. Happy October!

Old Poem Found in a Stack of Papers

A desolate abandonment

A lightened shadow cast below

As greasy blackness fully spent

Its wrath upon its foe.

And eyes as teary as the sea

Gaze at the waves of woe.

But few of these begin to see

And even few know

Of those grand armies watching there

And of their glory glow.

And my eyes are filled with light

Please gently wrap me round

With scarlet-hued humility

Like him with thorny crown

Grasped not at which was his

But made the lost his found.

Instead he loved and lived and wept

And poured his blood upon the ground.

Oh, to be like him, Jesus mine,

That his glory would abound.

Dubai 2008