Evan!

I have a very good friend named Evan.He is an exchange student in Japan this year and writes a blog too called ‘space case.’ You can check it out at http://www.evanholmstrom.blogspot.com. He is a very creative and funny guy. It was mostly his blog that inspired me to start my own. It’s a good blog and you should read it.

He wrote one entry in October called ‘spider web limbo’ all about a solo hike he took into the wilderness outside his city of Kumamoto in southern Japan. He described it as a small but welcomed spiritual diffusion into nature after being surrounded by his modern city for so long. I was missing him a lot and got excited and wrote him a song. It goes like this:

Evan woke up
In between the spider webs
In between the talking heads
And he was all alone.

It wasn’t night
But it surely wasn’t day
He went along his way
In search of a home.

The trail led up
Then split into fractals
Escher-esk pterodactyls
There was never an end.

Evan you were the first man
Didn’t you know it?
You were there in the beginning
Just like Eve!
And Evan, I’m breaking you into chapters
And I’m reading you on the bus.

Beneath the leaves
Of ancient architecture
Like a spiritual lecture
He found the home of his dreams.

The city is not yours
There is another jungle
An antiquated struggle
An unheard scream.(I wish I knew someway to put a recording up here so you could hear the song. If anyone knows a way to do that they should let me know.)