Barnacles and Stars

 

Lately I have been thinking on the paradigm of karate when I first began.

 

Most would not understand those days.

 

Plain and simple, Most didn’t understand them then either.

 

People came and went like waves upon the shore. It time it both changed and didn’t change. Like waves people came and went.

 

Those of us which lasted were like barnacles. Clinging ever tighter.

 

Now akin to the stars burning in the night.

 

Stretch out our hand, reach toward their warmth.