Saturday, November 23, 2013

PAD 23 I Shouldn't Be Here



I Shouldn't Be Here
(fiction)

I ran from my past.
But it followed me.
I build.
It tears down.
I connect.
It disconnects.
I take one step forward.
It pushes me back three.
I shouldn't be here,
with my past.
I’d like to run.
But where?
I've got to face my past head on,
so I’m free to step into my future.
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1 comment:

  1. lpnurseDecember 1, 2013 at 12:54 AM

    stepped off a curb when I was nine
    inches from a car
    Japanese boy pulled me back

    blind spot did its job and hid
    a Frito truck at 75
    Red pickup got out of my way just in time

    I’ve run over an armadillo and a chainsaw
    with nothing worse than a $500 mechanic bill

    I’ve been in the Middle East during a bread riot
    the London Tube with a “suspicious package”
    and Louisiana during Katrina

    I shouldn’t’ be here,
    But I’m glad I am.

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