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One before I go...
July 02, 2007I've got the next two days off to recover from all of the flooding coverage I've been out on.
I am stressed, tired, exhausted, heart-broken, worn out, stressed, water logged, stressed and stressed.
I have seen a lot of things that I honestly didn't know I'd ever see. I've heard local comparisons to the scenes from Hurricane Katrina, and on a very small scale, I'm sure it's kinda like that.
I've got a lot of photos that I'm going to share with all of you readers soon, but not right now. I'm too tired to talk about them.
Before I came back to the office for the last time tonight, I went over the Emanuel Davis overpass for one last look for a few days.
The sunset was very pretty... perfectly shining through the clouds. But the filthy floodwaters below made a great contrast of beauty and pain.
A song came to mind...by the christian group Superchick. It's called Beauty from Pain. I thought it kinda made sense.
The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I'm alive
But I feel like I've died
And all that's left is to accept that it's over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that I made
I try to keep warm but I just grow colder
I feel like I'm slipping away
After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I've cried my last
There'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today
Someday I'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain
My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I wonder why God let me walk through this place
And though I can't understand why this happened
I know that I will when I look back someday
And see how You've brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames
Here and I am at the end of me (at the end of me)
Trying to hold to what I can't see
I forgot how to hope
This night's been so long
I cling to your promise there will be a dawn.
I wanted to shoot something pretty from all of this nightmare before I put it behind me for a few days.....that's pretty much what I did.
Posted by Jason Palmer at 08:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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Beautiful. Have a nice rest.
