Once Upon Our Lifetimes...

 Once Upon a Lifetime, 

every lifetime, I meet him. It feels like I wait, tortured inside, anticipating his arrival. 

In this life, he first came to me when I was very young, just a girl, playing on the deep blue carpeted floor of my bedroom in New Orleans, LA. 

I remember playing and listening to music. I played a game called Ships & Sharks, which I made up because of the carpet's coloring and my trundle bed was the perfect ship. I, of course, was Captain. I would play in the sunshine streaming in from the glass doors  leading to the balcony outside of my room. I got chased by sharks and often found myself in the Bermuda Triangle.

I have always felt and spoken to spirits, except as a child, I didn't know that was "abnormal". I had a lot of visitors and returning friends. I had a lot of fun. 

One of my very special friends, my most fun and adventurous of friends was an older boy. We never exchanged names, we just played. We knew each other and names never really came up, just fun. 

On a particular occasion, he seemed to appear and he was different. He was all grown up and older. He was older than I was a bit naturally but this time he was even older than that. He was a grown-up by my 5 year old standards. He proceeded to tell me something. Apparently it isn't what I wanted to hear and so I named him that day in a drawing I did of him. 

I drew his likeness and wrote some of his message out because he said he wanted me to remember it. It was frightening, his message. I remember that. I was really angry at my friend. So much so that I labeled his picture - The Devil. 

My artwork, scared my mother, who put it away. She thought by the facial hair that I had drawn my father. She really wasn't sure why and she didn't ask at the time. She just took the artwork and I never saw it again for over 40 years, when I met my friend in the flesh. 

My whole life changed the moment I met him in the flesh and something inside me was familiar and peaceful. The outside of me, however, was extremely distressed. I will share our adventures here with you. Buckle up and get ready to meet the love of lifetimes, my twin soul, the Diablo Blanco.