Lzzy Hale Instagram – BEFORE WE WERE PIRATES 🏴☠️
Before we were pirates we were children playing with sticks and singing into hair brushes, climbing trees and hoping to beat whoever climbed the tallest. The smallest rock would excite us and ignite us and the rustling of leaves on the drive way was thunderous crashing down into every puddle, never afraid of the rain or the muck. We ate dirt in the garden and made snow fashioned cabins to hold meetings and manifest the hopes and dreams we knew instinctively, the buried treasure that nobody else sees. We felt the power of the wind and sea.
Adventurers were we.
Then we grew up, and turned our wheel toward the fears and tears and everything that comes with being a grown up. All the important things like money, and houses, careers and cables.We tried our hand gambling under the table.
Sometimes it’s fun now to look at all of us like we are all just on a field trip together in 8th grade.
Not much is different from who we were then
Except for some stray grays and silvers
Some of us clean and some sober
Laughlines and lifetimes that have made us closer. We never lost the joy of who we were
Before we were pirates.
It’s our core beginnings
No matter how many lessons learned
How many bones broken
Scars earned or hearts stolen
Our stories, and jokes are what makes us who we are, and it’s all we are left with the end.
We are the sum of all our parts,
The parts we were born with,the ones we picked up and the ones we forgot.
Our dark and light
Our triumphs and failures.
When we are in our retirement home…it will be the same one. Still together
Laughing at the same fart jokes til the day we croke.
By Lzzy Hale
Written for Joe Josh and Arejay | Posted on 01/Mar/2025 20:47:24
