The World Outside

A reflective free verse poem

Sometimes I feel like it would be nice

To just freeze time in its tracks,

To pause the endless momentum of life

and simply breathe.

 

Like the lazy afternoons spent at the beach

In the warmth of a waning summer,

Wishing you didn’t have to go back to work the next morning

Or that fall wasn’t creeping around the corner.

 

I wonder what that feeling is.

What lies at the heart of that desire?

I suppose the real question is:

If I could stop time in its tracks,

 

Would I have the courage

To ever start it back up again?

The courage to rejoin the world

And the flowing river of life?

 

If I knew what it would take for me to return,

Could I find that same courage

On this Tuesday morning

As I lie anxiously in my bed?