Update on Book, I have penned a poem

Hi how you doing?

SO quick update, Im working away on the book, its getting toward final edit part now, all very exciting!.

I have penned a poem especially for the book here it is, hope you like it, speak soon

Storm

By Karl Newton

As I stand here on the jetty, looking at my boat bobbling around in the calm of the shore

I feel a sense of nerves and emotion

I have seldom felt before

As I look across the bay, I see a land of much allure

Full of hope and promise

The likes of which, I have never had before

I take one last glance behind me, at the place my heart once called a home

The fairground now is shutting, and dark clouds are setting the tone

I board my boat and cast off out to sea

Full of hope and desire

For my new life to be.

I row and I row until I hit some choppy seas

All of a sudden a dark mist is surrounding me

I’m lost in the wilderness between

The past and where I want to be

I find myself lost and full of doubt

Sinking emotionally

But then in a glimpse of wilting hope I recall

The land awaiting me

I grab my Orr, brace myself, then I fight the powers that be

Breathe by breathe, stroke by stroke, battling through the choppy seas

It is not too long until the black clouds fade and a ray of sunshine beckons me

The sea goes calm, the load gets light

And what is this I see?

The coast of the new land which welcomes me warm and gratefully

I take a look back across at the sea to my home that used to be

It has been battered and destroyed by the storm that troubled me

But not no more, As I stand on this shore.

I rode the wave and I was brave

And now I find the happiness I crave

Riding on the crest of my own happiness wave.