Continued from Part 2 …… The Circus Comes to Town

I find Victoria’s place easy enough thanks to the hotel clerk’s directions. It’s a Gated Garden Apartment on the second floor with a terrace. Very nice place, professionally landscaped with a pool complex and all the amenities. I ring the doorbell and in a moment a very beautiful woman opens the door. Victoria has out done her name.

“Would you like a drink on the terrace before we go out?” “Why sure, that would be nice.”  After some short get to know you better conversation and how do you know Randy. I explained the hat incident from the previous night and she just delights in the moment. All this time we have not looked away from each other. It seemed to me that Victoria and I had clicked like the fall of a dead bolt. I was shortly to find out that I was right in my assumption. She and I were each other’s opposite number. Everyone has one or maybe more of these people. You both tick to the same metro don; perfect mental synchronization. But to be clear, she was not my soul mate. I met my soul mate some time later and we have been married for the last twenty years. And that’s something else entirely. That’s a whole different level and experience.

Danger Combustible Materials

We never made it out the door. I kissed her in the living room and she pulls me to the bedroom. A lot of expensive clothes were quickly shredded when brains short-circuited. Think of the most torrid love scene you’ve watched at the movies…. this was it. But I am not going to write erotica. Not today……..

Exhaustion And A Visitor

Dinner never happened. Some time later she brought some light sandwiches. I learned that she did not get much sleep that day either and now that it was dark out we both fell of to sleep easily… That’s when God showed up. “Hey, Grant! Grant! Wake up I have things to show you.” No, I did not hear a voice, but the message was clear enough. This was about day seven of non-stop running. My tank was empty and I couldn’t run off to something else even if I wanted to. He had me where he wanted me.

I had met Him several years prior to this and knew very well who and what He was. But I never had time or at least I never gave Him the time to really get to know him. Too busy trying to fit three life times into one I guess. Now it was time to see the world as it really is.

Look, Listen, Hear, Smell And Feel   

The Bedroom windows were all wide open and a warm gentle breeze blew in from time-to-time creating the most comfortable room I have ever been in. A clear sky allowed starlight to illuminate the room in soft blue tones. It shined off the leaves of the outside trees as they shifted in the air filling the room with the sound of their flutter. Peaceful ever so peaceful…

I became aware of bursts of fragrance from the gardens below. Each time different as flowers and shrubs, in turn, released their message into the air. And always the warm breeze stroking my flesh, gentle, always gentle but firm none the less.

Sounds of all the night creatures melded with the sound of the leaves into a repeating melody. It calls to be heard, listen, listen… it is the bond of all else that flows through the senses. Small punctuations enhance each rise and fall of the song.

The woman. At rest, a perfect form, her hair flows in soft waves over the shoulder, the curve of the hip and narrow waste. Pleasing if only to gaze upon. Her sent mixes with my own and says completion. Her body; warm to the touch, alive and radiant.    

The stars glimmer and twinkle in forms of constellations moving ever so slowly across the night sky. Brief shadows reflected as a wisp of cloud passing in the heavens……….

You put it here for me and everyone else didn’t you? “Yes,” unheard but audible just the same. It’s all for our pleasure isn’t it? “Yes;” again. A a lot of love went into all this? And a final, “Yes.”

Sleep And A New Day

I looked at the clock, several hours had passed and I went sound asleep. The night-air held me in its spell until morning. I awoke to the sound of birds and bright sunlight. The smell of coffee floated by and that got me up fast enough. I remember throwing on a pair of pants and stepping out to the terrace in the morning sun. It was a beautiful morning and when breakfast showed up there were Grits on my plate. All fixed up proper and even better than the last batch I had. I’m fond of Grits to this day.

I learned a lot more than how to fix Grits though. I learned to slow down; enjoy the world around me and all that has been put there by a loving God. I know him better now and he hasn’t had to wear me down just to have a chat. We have a much better relationship and besides, I think he likes me and I know he likes the rest of you guys also.

Part 1….. The Land Of Dixie

Part 2 …. The Circus Comes to Town