The poetic city: “Trapped”

Jan 04, 2021 • Creative Writing

Finding the paths we want to return to. (Photo by: Kelley Crawford)

Trapped

A thousand times a day

I catch myself straying from

the path of acceptance.

It is so easy to lose oneself in

the this-and-that of ordinary existence

and miss the bounty of the moment.

Before long I am trapped

in a thicket of consensus reality

where acceptance is conditional

and outcome determines meaning.

The harder I try to extricate myself

the more enmeshed I become …

Until the futility of my predicament forces me

to exchange the judgement of experience

for the experience of judgement.

Then, before I know it, I find myself

back on the path of acceptance

for the one thousand and first time.

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