Michael Lee Dodd

 
Name at birth:    Michael Lee Dodd 
Date of birth:    June 4, 1961 
Place of birth:    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Date of death:    August 15, 1989 
Place of death:   Arvin, California
Place of burial:    Arvin Cemetery
 
Submitted by:    Harry L. Dodd
(swingers@westworld.com)

I have stood at the ocean's edge, seeking that which man has sought through the breaking waves of time. I have walked through the silent dense forests speaking with my brother the animal.

I have gone to the far place in minutes, where it took my father days to travel, nay, years. I have been lost in the love of a woman's passion, seeming to not return the same as when I left.

I have spoken to such Gods as have revealed themselves and communed with spirits having taken earthly shapes. I have known a good era as it was upon me, passing into but a memory from which I drew sustanance.

I have poured my best into my children, knowing it was not good enough. I have ridden the notes of songs in the vast expanse of mental space.

I have seen the depths of sound wash over my soul as I asked unanswerable questions. I have died, only to return unwillingly to a place I never meant to enter.

I have been an abandoned soul on a windswept mountain top and have exhalted in feelings no other human dares to remember.

I was, I am, I will to be a wizard molded by knowledge, an enchanter shaped by skill, a magician by my own choice, a sorcerer guided by the mysteries of life. I am all of these and more...I am your father.