Step Ahead

We might think that over time we would have availed ourselves of every opportunity to mature, engage, grow, become more sincere, become more understanding, but then we see how we are in the light.

Who's to authenticate

the point of balance

that screams the name

of the place

where we sit

when having a meal alone?

 

Is it this me

today

alone here

with my aloofness?

 

Is this hypercritical moment

the dividing line

between who I was

and the person

I have become

with these new insights?

 

Or you,

are you the same

as who you were

when first you questioned

the reason for your being

so intent

on disclosing

your inner secrets

to yourself?

 

Self-consciousness,

a beast and a bathtub ring

in the mind,

will not forget

to circumnavigate

the textures

of our feelings.

 

I run away

and stand right here

and run,

and in the end

watch myself

unpatriotically

abandon a childhood dream

that someday

when I'm older

I will understand.

 

Stone tools

and every advantage,

and yet here I am

looking back at myself,

and I am still you.

 

runningturtle87

Reviews

[lee von cleef]

one little barb after another, plenty to keep me uncomfortable,I think it hopeful to wish to dream of understanding in a world of indifference, Smiling, a thought of a committee of running turtles,never seen three or four together, usually just the lone spare.

[Nick.B]

Interesting poem, that shows the loss of time, how we all grow up and see that all there is empty...great job

[Michael Kevin Spencer]

This was very philosophical and introspective and I welcome the new tone in your writing. Also more confessional somehow than usual it felt to me. I really like the temporal loops in this as well.

[Lily Mae]

That last stanza really took the above and slammed into my thoughts...and my heart. This has so much of what we talked about today in it..and yet it overwhelms me and has me speechless.. Welcome to writerscafe...xo :)