With age comes recognition....

I would love to travel the country in search of passion

To sift through humanity for these elusive individuals

Scanning the crowd to see if I can find them

Sometimes it's a word I catch in passing

Or the 'glow' that seems to surround them

Or sometimes it's the person attracting 'attention'

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As a young adult I was oh so attracted to the 'bad boy'

It wasn't what he did but how he looked

The jeans, the leather, the boots, the hair, the stance

Equated strength, confidence....passion

And yet, as soon as said 'object of my attention' opened its mouth

The spell was broken

I was like a moth in the night hitting the window trying to get at the light

As I grow older I've met variations of that 'bad boy'

Learned that it can be a person's position or 'exterior packaging'

That attract the most attention from both men and women

And that some of those individuals have learned the talk

That can pull in, and hold, the unsuspecting

I learned alot from a close friend who fit this description

By all accounts the bad boy with charisma

I listened as women complained that he wouldn't commit

Amused I watched as men seemed gaga in his presence

Trying to mimic his style

And yet through our conversations I knew he was as lost as I was

Looking for something in his growing list of conquests

He was like a flame and his followers the unsuspecting bugs

And lately I've discovered something new

That it's not necessarily the exterior packaging

Or the person with just the right words

It can be the old farmer in Carharts trying to keep to himself

Or the band guy teaching the kids guitar

It's the person I feel drawn to for no apparent reason

Until I look in their eyes and see it

a certain kind of light

strength, confidence

And perhaps that's what happens

As light beings, we're drawn to the light in others

And it's different from those previously mentioned

because it doesn't look for someone else's light

to fulfill your own

In speaking to those with the light in their eyes

You can hear it and feel it

Passion

and it's contagious

So what it comes down to is that in recognizing the light

you reignite your own

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I can't wait to get on the road

and test this