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.

1 comment:

lpnurse said...

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.