Author: michaeljordahl

Retired Miner, loves science, reading, carving, walking, recovering alcoholic

hesitated

finaltrigger

suddenly

my enemy stood before me

face to face

in the afternoon sun

i was close enough

to see the fear

in his almond eyes

i had a gun

he didn’t

 

i hesitated

 

could i really kill him

here in cold blood

they say you should

never hesitate

but i just couldn’t

pull the trigger

he most likely

had a family like me

 

i hesitated

 

he slowly began

to back away from me

i had to let him go

i would never tell

the others

but i was secretly glad

when he bolted

for the woods

antlers held high

Lost Hunting Party

snowstorm

The snow swirled

Madly around us,

Thrust forth on

A bitter-tongued wind,

And each of us knew

That God’s icy breath blew

For the myriad sins

We had sinned.

And every man knew

He deserved it;

There wasn’t a one

To be spared–

We were lost in the storm,

And were never to warm,

But the truth was

We no longer cared.

We sat on the snow

In a circle,

Each man just

A shivering shell–

We’d accepted our fate,

And now we would wait

For the wonderful

Fires of Hell.

the rise and fall of science

finalnova

once upon a time, we worshiped the sun

and our universe made sense to us

but then science was born like a star

and we began to study everything

but the more we tried to understand it

the more we began to see how lost we were

some went back to worshiping the sun

others just admitted it was all illusion

sadly, the one thing that we knew for sure

was that our universe

would never make sense again

 

–photo/art by me

I Do

4by3sea

You were once

An easy river;

Then you flowed

Into the sea,

Now you’re part

Of something

Bigger–

And set apart

From me.

I promise that

I’ll be with you

For all eternity

When I cross

That final sandbar

And flow into

The sea.

 

–Photo by me