You are on a very long list
of those who can’t though
they persist.
Learn the lesson of Achilles
heel: there's something that doesn't want you here.
You hold tightly the images
of misguided faith, role
models and illusory joy.
But graven images topple
as slow as dry rot and
Pandora quietly fills your
box of toys.
Your house is projected
and frozen in time.
Twenty layers of
wallpaper are peeling
your mind.
Rooms untouched like
100-year-old Mason
jar preserves. You can't
eat fruit kept for so many
years.
Your choice of worlds
kept the patterns; no
new beginnings mean
the same old ends.
You may not break all
the rules, but you sure
make them bend.
Grace seemed to touch
you as you walked a
mile or two seemingly
content. But no matter
how amazing the grace
was, you can't be where
you never went.
As long as scapegoats
hang on crosses all along
this highway like rows of
pigs hanging bloodless at
the slaughterhouse, and
as long as Western
religious pop culture icons
and other social images
replace what is real, the roadblocks and washouts
will continue to keep you
there. Achilles protected everything but his heel.
Jun 26, 2025
Jun 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM UTC
You are on a very long list
of those who can’t though
they persist.
Learn the lesson of Achilles
heel: there's something that doesn't want you here.
You hold tightly the images
of misguided faith, role
models and illusory joy.
But graven images topple
as slow as dry rot and
Pandora quietly fills your
box of toys.
Your house is projected
and frozen in time.
Twenty layers of
wallpaper are peeling
your mind.
Rooms untouched like
100-year-old Mason
jar preserves. You can't
eat fruit kept for so many
years.
Your choice of worlds
kept the patterns; no
new beginnings mean
the same old ends.
You may not break all
the rules, but you sure
make them bend.
Grace seemed to touch
you as you walked a
mile or two seemingly
content. But no matter
how amazing the grace
was, you can't be where
you never went.
As long as scapegoats
hang on crosses all along
this highway like rows of
pigs hanging bloodless at
the slaughterhouse, and
as long as Western
religious pop culture icons
and other social images
replace what is real, the roadblocks and washouts
will continue to keep you
there. Achilles protected everything but his heel.
©2025 Daniel Tucker
All Rights Reserved.
Notes.
Dedicated to everyone who
struggles with society's
myriad addictions.
You cannot get out of
these traps until you start
dumping your alibis.
(I guess the Addictions Counsellor still lives in me).
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