On Lent

I'm not a religious man.  I most likely don't believe in God but don't quite have the strength to sever my ties from that hope just yet.  However, I do enjoy a challenge: and lent, since I tie it not to religion, has become a seasonal personal challenge.  This year, I originally planned on repeating last year's change - giving up facebook.  Seems practical considering I'm addicted. HOWEVER, here at USD they are encouraging people to give up "apathy" for lent.  Although they probably mean this in terms of worldly issues (ie genocide etc), I am taking this as a call to improve myself and not be so apathetic towards things.  Therefore, although I've made the decision late, I have decided that I shall make a blog post every day until the lent season ends.  In addition, I will write a poem every day.

I have to thank my friend for indirectly giving me this idea.  She's playing the guitar for 30-40 minutes a day, as her lent challenge.  Since she took the "give up apathy" challenge to heart I figured I ought to too.

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My poem for the day:

I burned it down.

The ties that bind have been broken.

The pathways to the past are no more,

So no one will have to settle their scores.

Alone today, alone tomorrow,

It's all in the mind you know,

Though that may be hard to swallow.

This Bridge That Never Was,

An invisible path laid out.

It was to only take me in one direction, and that was back.

Moving forward has to be the way for me,

so I burned The Bridge That Never Was.

Although the Bridge was sturdy,

The supports were built on lies.

"See you soon" "I'll trust you forever".

Supports that held no meaning when we were young

Somehow stood for so long in my mind.

But now I am wiser,

And have turned back from the Bridge.

Thought it Never Was,

Another will take its place.

And it will Be.