Creative Writer Meets The World

This is the Essay I wrote for Argosy for getting into my Master's Program I will be starting in January. Even at a young age when I was in grade school I knew that I wanted and was going to accomplish a lot of great things. When I was a child I was actually in special education until I was in the 4th grade due to having a motor skill problem I was born with and a speech problem. My motor skill problem prevented me from holding a pencil correctly and would at times cause hand pains as it does still to this day if I have to write too much by hand therefore as I am writing this I type everything. With that and the speech problem which people never seem to notice most of the time I worked very hard to get out of special education in grade school. This is just one of many examples I have of where I have worked toward a goal that most would thought impossible. I came from a single parent household with a father that decided he didn’t want anything to do in my life but I worked throu...

Emotions, Strong, Intense, Feelings, Over powering, Overwhelming, Ever compressing, Never comprising, Touches every part, Of moments, Of life, Of dreams, Of places, Of people, All over the world, All over from young, To old, To everyone in between, Emotions, Happiness, Love, Joy, Sadness, Wonder, Excitement, And every emotion in between, We all feel them, Some more than others, Some less than others, It depends on the circumstances, That one might go through in life, Emotions, We all feel them, We all sense them, Some of us express them, Some of us hide them, Some of us seem to feel them all, Some of us seem to feel others, As they go through the hardships, As they go through the joys, As they go through every moment, Emotions, Strong, Intense, Ever flowing, Ever going, Ever changing, They live within us, They are always there, Part of us always, Through this life, Waiting to rise, To the surface, Again.

Stars have pushed aside to let him through, Through to her heart, Through to her soul, Through to her mind, Through to the innermost being, To the depths that most couldn’t touch, Couldn’t even see, Couldn’t even try to find, To sense, To feel, To know the depth of her, Stars have pushed aside to let him through, Through the walls she had built, The ones miles, And miles around her heart, The ones that some tried to go over, Some went over a few, Some helped build, Some broke through, But was rebuilt through other things, He didn’t really know it, He didn’t even see, That when she met him, She was close to a moment, Where she felt to give up, She was tired of the walls herself, She was tired of the hurt, The pain, Everything that she was put through, She didn’t know if she could handle it, If she could go through it again, And then there he was, He took her by surprise, Got her heart going, Just as if there was never any walls, Any pain, Anything that was wrong in her life, Stars have ...

Sometimes we all need to look on the other side, Sometimes we all need to see other points of view, Even when we don’t agree, Even when we want to argue, Even when things don’t seem to make sense, In our eyes, As part of our lives, There are moments we have to be bigger, Than what we really are, To push aside the differences, And to walk along another side, We might not always understand, We might not always see, But sometimes we got to take that moment, But sometimes we got to take that chance, And look at the other side of the fence, Look to see that although you might not agree, And although there are times to disagree, That we all are human beings, We all have emotions, We all have feelings, We all have times of loss, We all have times of hardships, We all have times of gain, We all have times of joy, There are those that are truly corrupt, And truly evil, But we have to remember that not all things, We might believe in is so easy, As black and white, There are so many shades of gr...

Everyday things are changing, Sometimes days seem like weeks, And weeks like months, And months like years, We have our moments, We have those times, When everything seems to be changing, That it feels the rug is being pulled, From beneath us, We don’t always know what to do, Or rather we will sink, Or swim, We might not always believe, Those changes will always be good, Sometimes we don’t always understand, What the purpose might be, What the way will bring, Changes are all around us, Small ones, Large ones, Everything in between, The world is constantly changing, We are constantly changing, Nothing from day to day, Is ever fully the same, Some circumstance, Small or large, Will always be around, But it is how we handle these changes, How we believe in ourselves, How we believe in Him, How we believe in His guidance, How we believe in prayer, And is all those things, Knowing that we all are destined for something, No matter how big, Or how small it might be, That all these changes, Fr...

I might not always know what tomorrow will bring, I might not always know what will happen, I might not always know how certain things will happen, Or how things will always work out, But I do know this, I know that I love you, I know that God brought us together, That we are meant to be together, And that although the way might not always seem clear, That sometimes the way seems hard, That there is hardship, That everything in the world around us, Seem to fall apart in one way or another, We will stay strong, We will find a way, Because we have Him in our lives, So although there is no promise, There is no guarantee, I do know this, I know we love each other, I know that you mean the world to me, I know that you care about me, And I know that we will get through it, As long as we love each other, Take each day as it comes, Look out for each other, Keep praying, Keep believing, Keep on knowing, Keep on looking toward Him, Looking toward His words, Looking toward His wisdom, We will get...

What I love about us, What I enjoy so much, Is the ease we have with each other, The way I feel whenever I am with you, The wonder, The beauty, The love, The peace, The calm, The joy, The way we just seem to fit together, We have our differences, We have our similarities, We find ways that complement each other, And that is what I love about us, I love everything there is about us, The way I feel comfortable with you, The way I don’t feel I have to try to be, This way, Or that way, What I love about us, What brings true joy to my heart, Is how much I know you care, Even without always the words, Without always the gestures, The simple of it all, Just the look into your eyes, Just the way I know you care, The way I know you love me, The way you and I just belong, The way I feel that when it is just us, When it is you and me just spending time alone, How I feel the whole world fades, And all there is, Is you and I, What I love about us, What matters more to me, Are these emotions, The li...

Sitting there at the table surrounded by friends, My mom, The guy I truly found love through, Thinking of how many birthdays, So many moments, Both good and bad, Some birthdays better than others, Some filled with hurt, Some filled with some sort of love, Some filled with more presents, Some filled with less, But in the end, The best birthday, The one I remember, The one I think about often, Is the one where I sat at that table, Looking at everyone around, Feeling truly blessed, Feeling truly loved, Feeling truly adored, Feeling like there wasn’t much, That could ever be better, Than those moments, That I sat there, Was able to look into all those eyes, Including yours, Having a whole weekend, Of excitement, Happiness, Wonder, Joy, Love, Because of you, Because of you being in my life, Because of this love, That moment, The moments that follow, There isn’t much now, That could top that first birthday, With you by my side.

I’ve been through many rough patches, Seen some difficult times, But now even I, Who has seem to have found a way, Is finding myself at a first for me, But even through this, Even through this moment, This pain, This unknowing, I have faith, I have belief, I have something I didn’t have before, I had gone through so many trials, So many things out there, So many problems alone without Him, I wasn’t always a believer, I didn’t always have that life, But now I do, And I believe that can make a difference, If I keep putting my trust in Him, If I keep remembering His promise, Then things will work out in some way, He will be there to guide, Will be there to provide, Never before in my life, Never before until I became saved, Did I find that peace, Find that hope, Find that belief in prayer, In knowing that I am His, So although I find myself, In a place I don’t quite know fully, I have to keep remembering, To not listen to the other voices, To remember that this too shall pass, But it is s...

When we go through our lives, As we grow older, Sometimes wiser, Sometimes not, We all still aspire, We all still aspire to be this or that, Maybe a famous athlete, Maybe a famous singer, Maybe a famous actor, A writer, Who knows, There are always these possibilities, Always these things that run through our minds, Through our heads, But we don’t always remember, We don’t always seem to see, What can lie beyond those things, We forget to pause, We forget to take the time, To take the time to see, Beyond our lives at this space, Beyond our lives at this moment, Beyond our lives here, We forget to look beyond, We forget to see deeper than ourselves, We forget, But it doesn’t always have to be that way, We can always still aspire, But we also have a higher calling, We have a higher meaning, We have a higher goal to accomplish, We have a higher calling to see, We must remember, That although we might aspire many things, There is a true aspiration that we are called to, There is a true dest...