A Stumble, A Change

A toe into the frigid

Water,

A half step into a room crowded with

Strangers--

I must fall through the thinly iced stagnation

Of my lake of denial

And realize that I am lost,

Crowded by unknowns

In this life that still

Masquerades as my own,

But is undoubtedly

Different.

Reviews

[Judy Ponceby]

Brilliant Ben. Beautiful choice of words, to me signifying the changes from teenage to young adulthood. Your metaphors are most apt as well.

[FJ Davis]

Feelings, seemingly without cause; a nameless alienation--common afflictions of the teen years. For, after all, change is indeed happening; emotional, as well as physical.
So-called "grown-ups" often like to tell the young that things will seem much clearer when they become adults. They lie.
A gem of obscurity, young Ben of the MO clan.