MedicineSinging™

Welcome to our new Board Member, Rowan de los Reyes of Houston, Texas. Rowan is our newest Board member and brings a deep desire to help MedicineSinging restructure its poetic content and expression with particular focus  on poetry segments. Both Dr. Emerick and Rowan are poets and can be guaranteed to engage in a poetry slam any time they get together! Join us!

Rowan is a world traveler, having recently been to Costa Rica, and soon to visit Iceland. After that…Madrid, Spain for a whole semester!! His fluency in Spanish, and his heritage of ancestral expression from Cuba,  make Rowan a rare and gifted helper for MedicineSinging. Any encounter with Rowan will convince you he is indeed an expert debater,  widely read self-directed learner, and a fun person with whom to engage on any subject, including his rich faith’s expression as a Christian.

We asked Rowan to share his favorite poem that he himself has written, and here it is! Note: His writer’s name is Fraebart Hawkins.

Yesterday’s Man

By Fraebart Hawkins

Once, I was beautiful.

I was an angel on earth, and I was welcomed with warm arms and tender kisses.

I was squeezed tightly and asked to never leave, I was someone’s perfect being.

 Once, I was handsome. I was dressed to the nines in every piece of clothing I wore. 

Every step I took seen as the epitome of man, the very essence of someone’s love for me. 

I was admired and asked to show how big and strong I was. I was someone’s great being. Once, I was a refuge. I was a place like none other, a port for sad ships to sail in and speak their sorrows to. I was a comforter of many things, a solution to feeling lonely.

I was someone’s loving constant. Once, I was a crush. I was once that boy across the room who made her heart leap. I was the very desire she had. I was once the one. Once I woke up and it was all gone. Now leaving me to feel this stupid monologue in my head every time I see her pass by on the street.

Welcome, Fraebart Hawkins, welcome Rowan!