Out of Exile

The purpose of a journey is the experience not the destination; thus the spirits wanderings can be long indeed with the only motive to spread joy. This book and the one that follows represent my lifes work. I wrote Fallen Empire after completing Out of Exile which represents my attempt to recapture the internal harmonics that flowed so freely in my youth.As a young man I was inspired by song lyrics and naïvely entrusted what I wrote to individuals who simply stole it. I not only received nothing but was also persecuted which resulted in my being blacklisted while at university. During my education I discovered that the use of rhyme assonance and meter that comprise internal harmonics were present in the lyrics I had already written. I present the best of them here for literary purposes only--though the songs have been sung and marketed long since they are mine. I gave away the songs that I later wrote most notably those that appear in the 1970s film The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff.Babylon looks like a place to leave the road but its a dead end. Once there oppression traps the spirit and the journey continues without the traveler. When the mind works a little one thinks; when it works a lot one wonders; but if you try to remember why you will fail. Chief Seattle said it best but my version is I will write no more forever.