Tag: trapped

• Boxes

  Reaching out
  Meeting only resistance
  Barely breathing
  Desperately seeking escape
  Inside this box
  The walls all look the same
  Shades of brown and grey
  The fabric comprised
  Of a million more tiny boxes
  Over time the monotony
  Numbs me enough
  To keep me here
  Make me forget my entrapment

  What if we all woke up?
  Realized there are no barriers
  Except those which we create?
  What if we cast off the walls
  Broke free from our boxes?

  April 28, 2013

  awakening, barriers, boxes, escape, freedom, monotony, poetry, resistance, trapped, walls

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• Trapped

  I wrote a series of poems over the last few days.  They came in fits & spurts and I tried to make them all into one, but in the end, they wanted to be 3 poems.  I’m not even sure that they’re each complete, but nevertheless here is the first in the series.

  It’s like I woke up one day to realize
  I’m a priest working in a brothel
  I don’t know how this came to be
  But I do know that I’m the one I’ve been pimping out

  The word “trapped” lingers in my mind
  A reminder that a lifetime of decisions brought me here
  Sometimes it seems it will be a lifetime before I redirect the course
  But it can’t be — time is short to follow the path
  The sense of urgency is strong

   

  November 18, 2012

  lifetime, path, priest, Spirit Reveries, trapped

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