I see you,
looking through the looking
glass,
for all the ways you agree
to keep up the farce
of who you chose to be
in years past.
Pining at the
overturned clock
as it mocks
you
distorted yet moving ahead;
same language differently said.
But hey,
you're hearing what they say without them being there.
How is it fair? that your thoughts paralyze you as you analyze them in voices of men who echo their silence
into screeching sirens
to drown out
the sound
of the joy you never found.
Did it ever occur to you
they're debilitated too and everyone is just searching
for another
to discover what they have lost,
not to find
what's probably always on their mind,
but to blame
and shame
for their own failure to play the game.
Look at you,
trying to hide
what's inside
if only to fit in
their skin
ill-fitting in its cycles of sin,
crawling out of yours
an animal on all fours
chasing its tail
for spinning circles
cannot fail
in foolproof design.
There's no end to the line
that you didn't
have the courage
to define.
Why do you keep
moving away
to be the one who doesn't want to stay,
an ostrich with its head
in the sand cannot see the land that grows lush meadows
just beyond its grave
a tombstone that reads "A slave to the brave".
You haven't stepped too far
from the door
you left ajar walk in,
or maybe just peek
within,
for someone new
waits to come
into view
it's the one that grew
and did pursue
a life outside the queue
the one they couldn't subdue there's no magic trick there aren't two,
the one that came through, is You.
Image courtesy: Lesser known {free} corners of the internet.
“A normal person sees a failed experiment, a scientist sees progress.”
― Steven Magee
Here's to a quick experiment that I've decided to publish before I change my mind. Quite a bit rough around the edges, but hey, we owe it to ourselves to try - as the piece with the oddest rhyme scheme I've ever written illustrates!
Do keep sending in your feedback and messages, really helps shave off the rough edges and in some cases build from scratch! Have a reflective Sunday :)
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