Have you wondered how tomorrow looks
When you've lied about today?
Have you squandered opportunities
When you've refused to play?
Have you sought the possibilities?
Have you broken through the ruse?
Have you shed your limitations
And tried to fill some bigger shoes?
Will you spread your wings to fly
Across the chasm in your life?
Have you shared your closest fears
With the one you call your wife.
Do you long to break the mold
And try to start the day afresh?
Is there courage there to stride out,
Have you the will to make it mesh?
Is there a shade of self-deception,
Is a color bar installed?
Are there feelings of inadequacy
Has your darling not yet called?
Does your flaccid nature falter
When pinned against the wall?
Have you moments of reluctance
To recall it all, at all?
Does it all really matter
That your world is locked within,
That the things which hold you back
Are simply things you revel in?
That the greatest limitations
Are the ones you self-impose,
That the key which locks the door
Is locked outside the door you close?
Marshalg
reflecting@theBach
Mangere Bridge NZ
28 July 2009
This work was, unbeknown to me, adopted and publicly orated before a school assembly in the USA by a High School student with a broken leg.
She wheeled herself across the stage on a skateboard whilst orating...and was rewarded with rapturous applause from her fellow students.
She sent me a video of the occasion....
and, strangely, I couldn't help myself, I wept great tears of gratitude.
M@Foxglove.Taranaki.NZ