It was a Sunday,
I think
There were just too many
loose ends chanting me
down, accosting me
like beggars
encircling me
I felt like a clown
in one of those
Fellini movies -
out of place
a somewhat
surreal presence
in my own life
There I sat,
head in hand
as if looking
out over a
precipice
'That's it!
I Give Up! '
A funny five
words, don't
you think?
Not much on
their own
Like the gesture
a demolitionist
uses to cue
the explosives
The bottom
floors were
first to go...
the daily
to-do's,
impending
emergencies,
the way my hair
looked
then, the
bigger things -
like
loyalty,
sense of place,
purpose, direction,
security
sense of self
Yep, that's the one...
'sense of self'
everything got
real quiet after that.
then,
the distant
flapping of wings
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem