Ariel Powell – Mother, I’m Alive!

19. Ariel Powell – Mother, I’m Alive! The oldest song in this collection, circa 2001. I was a senior in high school when a very close friend in the dorm died. He was besties with my brother, and well loved by everyone in the school. He had a wild, flamboyant, theatrical and dtramatic personality. He was a cripple, with something similar to cerebral palsy. He was literally a hunchback, but he played the hammer dulcimer beautifully, hiked multiple mountains despite being crippled (a true example of willpower), and he knew how to laugh. This song’s for Justin.