so you have a baby coming

who will be loved more than any other

who will awake every day to your presence

and live in your arms

was i ever meant to be there

was i ever meant to share

was it ever meant to be

for if it wasn't, then was it me then

or a ghost of a better past.

Nameless

dreaded the unknown, bereft of instinct

which spoke neither too loudly nor kept silent

with childlike timidity, look

as the clock ticks on

for the light that reveals the one door,

this darkness where emotion has no voice

and the days come either too rapidly

or never at all

'tis true despite what they say

a child, shall wait

for the light to appear

defeating this darkness

which leaves him staring

lost in timid belief

for children know no better

and no worse

than the air in a sealed den.

Since I don't have too many original things to say, at least not too many blogworthy things at the moment, let me point kind readers here to 2 pretty amazing individuals.

This is Drew Reyniewicz, a daughter of a simple family from a small town (really small town) in the US. With the usual stimuli (Justin Bieber, etc), I cannot imagine how this girl has managed to in some sense rewrite popular songs to suit the quality of her voice. Not only does she have the intelligence and talent to give these efforts a quality that is quite sublime and sophisticated, but she also has the bravado to follow her instincts. The question in any viewers mind is - where does she get the confidence from, even if she has all the latent talent, which seems to come out of nowhere given her fairly non-musical regular family. Touchingly, her father in a different episode says "She is so much more courageous than her mother or me".

In her first audition where she covered a Bieber song, there is a point just before she walks out when she's filled with a slowly approaching panic and anxiety. Look for it if you watch the video. Beautifully real and human.

Oh, yes and she's only 14.

And this is Rachel Crow. Adopted when only 6 months old by a white couple who were themselves not wealthy, this embodiment of likeability has an engine of dreams that seems to run on fuel that is not of this world. Like Drew, she seems so much older than her years. Now again, I'm amazed at how confident she is - it is a well documented fact that the cultures of the United States and some European nations breeds a viewpoint that amplifies strengths instead of mitigating weaknesses (like eastern cultures do) and this must have something to do with these talents believing that tomorrow will bring something that will change their lives.

And she's 13.