Track 04 – Sometimes . . . Life Just Feels Too Light

My initial thought while I was writing this song, Sometimes . . . Life Just Feels Too Light, was the similarities between the first moments of an eagle’s flight, its wings beating into the air, and the first moments of a great thought or inspired idea for a poem, beating its “wings” onto the page. In that moment, when the “wingspan” of the idea meets the “wind”, the inspiration, I have truly known and experienced “Self” and a greater authority than “Self” . . . God.

That initial thought then shifted to thoughts of carrying the “weight” of the death of one you love, the terrible weight of their absence. Sometimes, we just don’t trust the feeling of happiness. We just feel guilty about feeling good. And sometimes we just feel like being burdened as if we are a “peace” looking for “burdens” or an empty barge longing for cargo.

This song is for everybody who has lost someone close to them, and how difficult it is to get over that weight and to release that grief. Thank God for “writing”. It is a process of discovery, and it allows the page to carry my burdens instead of having my heart do it. Carry no burdens that you cannot endure. Writing is the great pack mule of burdens.