Leonard Lowe’s Final Flight to Life | Patrick Wilson

I’ve been absent for thirty years;
Away from what I’ve recognized as life.
I’m different, so, too, is the world that embraces me.
I left my life as a pupil, 
Only to stare at the same white paint as it aged before me.
I’ve been a hostage to myself, for most of my adult life.
I was a lad who never experienced my first car, waltz, or kiss
From another lass besides my mother, until now!
Fortunate I was to have this awakening, for
The doctors would wonder if I were dead from reality, or
If I were undergoing my resurgence to it.
Mr. Lowe was my name during those forlorn years,
But Leonard is my name today, for it’s my resumption; to 
My new shot at occupying in a world that so many folks, 
Including my doting mother, feared life forgot.
Come walk with me beyond the outlets of one’s consciousness that were locked for many years.
Learn from my affliction what life is from the inside.
I want to experience what I’ve been missing for so long.
Let us reserve a flight on Life and see where the plane will take us.
For in an instant, one’s voyage could be one’s last.
And we return to the shell of an existence touched briefly by Life.

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Patrick Wilson has been in the education field since 1998. He has an A.A. in English from the College of Coastal Georgia {Brunswick, Georgia}; he has a B.A. in English with a minor in Linguistics from Armstrong State University {Savannah, Georgia}, and he has a M.A. in English from Georgia Southern University {Statesboro, Georgia}. Currently, Patrick lives with his wife and daughter in Brunswick, Georgia where he teaches English at Coastal Pines Technical College and at the College of Coastal Georgia. He also tutors English and math at both colleges as well. Patrick enjoys writing creative pieces as well as scholarly pieces, for which he has been published in several online and printed journals over the years.