Grounded

Grounded

 

in my illustrious career

I have achieved nothing

 

years of looking forward

just vision, no precision

no adhesion to a purpose

 

wrote things, did things

non-descriptive things

as that word suggests

 

I am a non-specific entity

with general consequence

in a "tell-me" existence

 

the "show-me" superfluously 

lost in the womb

 

nine months to ponder possibility

one moment to have it severed

like the umbilical

 

I am practical

coming to an understanding of me

 

I never intended

greatness, 

in my shallowness

the cocoon enough

never wanted to fly

 

Wings and things

are for others to flit about

that's not what I'm about

 

maybe in the next life

I will be a Monarch

 

but for now, my kingdom

has sheets, a blanket

and idleness as my pillow

 

and I rule.

without lifting a disinterested

finger

head

 

or heart.

 

erin-cilberto

8/19/23

Reviews

[W. Barrett Munn]

Well, Sir Jacob, I believe you speak for the preponderance of mankind and womankind with your words.
There is great solace in being aveage; but average is an illusion; greatness lies in contentedness; those malcontents may achieve great things but those things are always outward, never in. Look inside and what do you see? Ah, that is the beauty and the question.

Winston

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I agree with you about the contentedness part...that is greatness for the individual even if others don't see it.
j.