4) Givens Park & Life & Life With Cadence (From) The L.O.M. Poem by Otradom Pelogo

I also had a chance to visit a park just before leaving, one that I had only visited once before; at that time it was filled with people driving through the park. Al and Jeanie, good friends of mine, asked me what they were doing. Because they were from the Virgin Islands, a different culture, I stopped to wonder, but was only reassured of my original conclusion, because of the smiles, food, music and sports the people seemed to be overwhelmed by.

Eight years later after having built that antenna, to not only communicate with God, the rest of the world, but myself as well, I ended up working as a security guard downtown, a block or two away from the famous Sixth Street. It was eight years later, and the crowd was ten times larger which circled the area in a display or phenomenon.

And after months of wondering, I simply called it life; until a young lady in a truck stopped like Al and Jeanie did eight years earlier, and asked what did I think was going on. But instead of just out of curiosity, it was more of an inquisition, as to after months of wondering, what had I finally concluded. I told her life, only because the list was too long that had a prayer, what I sometimes call a newfangled approach to an old idea of trying to communicate with God or at least those worthy of that respect. An exodus that someone had accidentally forgotten to tell me about, or simply the phenomenon of the nightlife that I had longed to see.

We're here because of what they did in the past
And more will follow because of what we do
The things we vie to build should also last
Things we also vie to build with virtue
Some leave each day without a word
And more will come because of you
So remember that we are still heard
Whether our goals are many or few
Because
Life's cadence
Makes you think
Think virtue
Makes you interpret
Makes you reinterpret old as
well as new mores, morals
and views of reality
Gives you advice
Questions convictions
Makes you notice everything
Makes you notice everyone
Forces you to create answers
to life, but not keep them
Makes you progress, then stop
then choose between the two
Creates empathy
Makes you diversify
Reveals new answers
Reveals phenomena to
make you think and adjust
Gives choices which are
productive but morally dichotomous
Asks is perspective is what
causes some things to change
Has the ability to transcend all
that we hold sacred and dear,
yet what someone somewhere
may consider moral
Has no boundaries, but
teaches conviction
Transcends time, culture and
perspective simultaneously,
yet proves that perspective is
the key to avoiding chaos
Too complex to be modeled
but can create the perfect
example
Impartial, but can tempt
schisms
Thinks, adapts, changes, reacts, leads, follows, etc.