The eye of the storm

When in doubt act pragmatically!

By Stanley Collymore

 

You came wholly unexpectedly into my life doing so

with the force of a major hurricane that thoroughly

dislocated the highly disciplined and well

ordered world I’d scrupulously planned, built,

nurtured and had subsequently surrounded

myself with, creating in the process

huge panic and a sense of deep

consternation within me; because

my much valued independence

was now for the first time

ever genuinely

threatened.

 

A situation made all the more alarming for me

because the ensuing conflict that was engendered,

and of which you were undoubtedly the solitary

catalyst, had become one of very powerful forces

intrepidly striving to gain the ascendency over the

other in the ultimate decision as to whether or

not you were allowed to stay in my life or

else be forcibly driven out completely

from the arena of my private

domain. It’s a dilemma which

there’s no easy solution for

until I know precisely

where I stand

with you!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

17 December 2010.