Member Poem

Though it may seem unsurmountable at this juncture, the beginning is drawing closer.  If we look at things as they really are, and are honest with ourselves, we will see that although we do not necessarily like what we see, we still see that we are being honest with ourself, and that looks better than anyone else's dishonest opinion of our honesty as this looming juncture approaches. 

     This upcoming beginning should not be approached trepidatiously, any more so than a young child might approach another strange-looking child of similar age, whose appearance resembles that of a feral boy, someone unencumbered by the trappings of modern society, and who is yelling out in the King's English, "Does anybody know where my Daddy is at?", with a pronounced lisp. 

     For you see, once this beginning begins, the previous beginning will have ended, and you made it through that one, I'm assuming, lest you would not be reading of the previous ending ending or this new beginning beginning, which has begun.  And since it is well known that, once a beginning has begun, the beginning will be gone, and can never be repeated as such, with only memories remaining; if you play your cards right, presuming you didn't lose the cards that Fate dealt out, and if you are a good card player, a skill you should have learned all those times when you needed to 'bluff' your mother when she would ask if you had seen your father, and you had, yet you instinctively knew, in the back of your mind, that Dad would be in serious trouble if you told Mom that you had seen him in the back seat on several occasions of the candy apple red '63 split-window Corvette belonging to that flirtatious minister of the Good News Gospel church that the family had recently started attending.  You thought that was definately the coolest split you had ever seen through a back window, or anywhere for that matter, but you just didn't think Mom would understand things the same as you, and so this was the beginning of your 'poker face', (though at the time you thought it was 'poke her face' thanks to good ol' Dad!).