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Story About Two Sharks and  A Bath

One night I was taking a bath.  I turned the faucet off.  Then all of a sudden the bath shook and a huge air vacuum took me to the bottom of the tub right into the middle of the ocean.  I was just hanging out, well actually more like freaking out.  It was the scariest thing that ever happened to me, not to mention weirdest.  I was sitting on the bath tub until it started sinking.  I was so stunned I couldn't swim.  I almost went with it.  Then just like always, when you think things couldn't possibly get any worse, you find out they can.  A shark, which when it got closer I found it was two sharks, speeding towards me.  Understand what I mean about things getting worse now ?   All I could do was scream at the top of my lungs.  I couldn't get any words out, not even help.  Just loud bellowing cry's.  Which I should have realized was pointless, because there were no people or land any where in sight.  I tried desperately to swim away, but the sharks were just to fast.  I accepted the fact I was going to die.  I was still.  Then just as the sharks came up, going to attack and kill me.  My life didn't flash before my eyes.  Instead, I had a strange twisted thought, or maybe a feeling to say I love you.  Yes, I did say I love you to a couple of fierce man eating sharks.  Let me guess, and people think you're strange ?  Anyway they stopped, were still, turned around and left me alone.  I was in total shock.  Yet some how things got even stranger.  I heard a deep, but very gentle voice. That sounded almost like and felt like, the feeling to say I love you to the sharks, but in words not thought.
" You showed true faith , remember to always and you will be glad."  Some how, by that point, I was at peace.  Peace out in the middle of the ocean.  As if I didn't have a care in the world.  Then the huge air vacuum swept me away and brought me back to my bathroom before I could think one thought.  I was back in my bath tub.  But, not for long.  I hopped out of that thing so fast.  I'm surprised I didn't slip and
fall flat on my face.  You know I never really figured out what happened that night. 
 But, I'm still just a little scared of taking a bath.  The End ... Rachel Wicks


 

Existing

As I sit here in this cold state
Feeling mighty warm
My thoughts rush in as
Rapidly as a storm
Replacing my mood
Of bittersweet
A simple peace
Begins to form
Finding joy in simple things
Brings to the soul
A harmonious melody
Comfort is there always
Inside each of us
If we will uncover it, and
Let it poor over our mind
When I speak many impulses
I receive
Some are created by love
Some are closer related to
The natural instincts of
Human man kind
Many times I feel nothing
Just as I feel I am nothing
Nothing more than a speck
On this swirling universe
Though some how true importance
And great value
Glamorous yet plain
Feeling opposite while
Just the same
Getting sucked into a
Lifeless vacuum is often
Easier accomplished than not
Remember love exist and
Hope is true
Seek for joy, bring peace
React on what you were
Planning to do
Life on earth is far
To short
The power is within you

           Rachel Wicks




BROKEN ISLAND

I am walking on the edge
of a broken island
I am peering in a glass case
of peace and hope
and love
Something nice to look in on
and I am circling
circling the dawn
            
Rachel Wicks

Grandpa

You are a spiritual friend indeed
How you came to my mother
In her time of need
Washing her nightmares away
You've encouraged in me
Your old duet
Representing a side of hope
Unseen yet
And maybe you had something
To do with the beautiful
Light today
But destiny can be so cruel
To separate a love like that
I must be reminded
Repeatedly of the reasons
Purely love, Purely free
To make us stronger
I suppose
Since I wasn't even a thought
All I could do
Was pray for those
You left behind, for awhile
They were missing your smile
And my soul couldn't understand
How destiny could be so cruel
To separate the love of a friend
But I know you hold each hand
And give them eternal peace
Together forever their
Pain will cease
And in me you encourage
Your old duet
Representing a sweet side
Of hope unseen yet
So I want you to know
I miss you and love you
Though officially
We haven't met

Rachel Wicks

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.


The silence that encases the room of
 where our conversations once played.
Now echo's the faintest sound
 appears awkward and grave.
It was still wonderful 
Because I could hear the
thoughts that you made ...
~ Rachel Wicks


A butterfly lights beside us, like a sunbeam
and for a brief moment its glory
and beauty belong to our world
but then it flies on again, and although
we wish it could have stayed
we are so thankful to have seen it at all.


 

Taken from Rachel's journal, she had many references pondering her short life here on earth :

Why would you want to ponder your own demise, good point.
So good,  I could not come up with an answer until now.
It is not so much the pondering of your own demise  but, 
the contemplation of death in itself.  When you embrace death,
not cling to  but,  embrace it and accept it. 
It is then you will know true beauty of life and appreciate it
for all that it is worth.
 

A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You're free at last.

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