Crouching Creature Poem by Lonnie Hicks

I am a Crouching Creature
bounded by Circumstance
and Choices I've made.

I pound against
the Circumstantial Wall
and I choose to bloody
my own fists against it all
but defiant
I will not relent
and measure this
as my commitment
to fight these chains.

Choosing in life
and family
in the world and my
career
is bounded by my iron Circumstances.

Where does my Circumstance live
and how can I circumvent
its boundaries?
Can I move?
Can I melt into some one's else's
Circumstance?

Will I in choosing
merely replicate
old choices
and old Circumstance?

I must I tell my self:
break away from me
and my choosing
to the extent
these choices make
my old and new
Circumstances endlessly repeating.
.
Yet, I hope somehow
with magical bent
to break that wall.

What do you think?
Will I succeed?