No Overnight Parking (Violator's Will Be Towed At Vehicle Owner's Expense)

Life isn’t about finding yourself; it’s about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined. - Thoreau

i'm alone

all alone

so alone

a mouse roaring in the grand canyon

a person running a three-legged race with no companion

a fish gone too far up and over niagara

an old man looking for a rise with no viagra

a soldier without a mission

an antsy, unregistered politician constantly changing position

i search for thoreau's marrow but someone keeps moving his cheese

in order to kiss the sky, you still have to get down upon your knees

my skin grows wrinkled under an unforgiving sun

looking over my shoulder, i begin to worry when life seems too much fun

how will i ever finish this turtle race

maybe i should pick up the pace, stop giving chase or hire a new attorney to take up my case

this life is one big parking lot

and i can never seem to find a space

Author's Note

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Poetic Beauty]

Oh the chaos that life can bring and how we wish it was going a different direction and at least not feel like climbing a mountain.

Sometimes we feel the weight of the universe on our shoulders and want a little shard of hope to keep us moving forward and finding some sort of peace

[Pete]

i don't know about you, but sometimes i stop and ask myself, "what they hell are you doing". life can be surreal.

[Poetic Beauty]

I have done that a few times in my life we are being honest and often question why I am doing something lol

[Thomas W Case]

Superb work. You paint the picture well.

[Pete]

thanks twc. i wish you better luck parking.

[Sami Khalil]

I can't find a decent parking space in malls or shopping centers for people take the first rows: I try to avoid crowded places and spaces. I like how you cover all these different scenarios in life. I see where you mention Niagara with Viagra; I guess both gush out and overflow. Wow!

[Pete]

is why people just stay home now and order thru amazon; no hassles - stuff just shows up at your door! i'm pretty sure that one of the necessary ingredients of being a poet/writer is a dash of insanity except that in my case i tend to put too much of it into these things i cook up.

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe! So true and well said. As long as you don't burn it, you are fine.

[Pete]

way past that - burn marks on all the pans a long time ago.

[Sami Khalil]

Lol. Burn, burn, burn. Don't burn bridges or hit ones like Baltimore