#herosjourney
reject when you're different
try to fit in
the mantra that is spoken
in rooms of our youth
look at life
from outside in
turn from old notions
to your own motions
mirrors show a face
the world does not see
like the soul's reflection is not reality
it’s an image of who you want to be
Jun 27, 2015
Jun 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM UTC
young run free
within boundaries
if escape seems possible
would fear allow it
fantasy’s the window
you know is not the door
finding that is easy
stop looking for it
don’t leave yet
look around some
scenery is different
seen from outside
once free of youth’s
forced fences
you find some built
on your own
Jun 27, 2015
Jun 27, 2015 at 12:40 PM UTC
You gave me a chance,
all those years ago,
just once
— but I chose to follow a dream.
You offered up yourself to me,
asked I enter in the labyrinth
and choose,
but I passed you up for a dream.
Broken still,
I wander in that haunted afternoon,
when you returned to the balcony,
barefoot with a *** of tea.
You’d brushed your hair again,
standing there, where moonlight
might have been; awkward as teens,
we sat and sipped, the red glare
of sunset dying in your eyes;
one button — left unbuttoned
on your blouse — held its breath;
the scent of magnolia and ambrette,
just refreshed, yearning for
one last compliment.
I watched you bend, and light
each candle, one by one,
to dance and flicker on your toes
painted red as burgundy,
waiting for some response from me
— oh, little bird, alone, courting
small talk, your clock chiding
on the bedroom door, while I delay
in the deepening mountain shadows.
You asked me only once,
gave me just one chance
to wrestle with the Minotaur,
but I turned away
and bargained on a dream.
With a second glance
that lingered for a second more,
still, you invited me, just once,
opened up a stretch in time,
as women do, just long enough
for him to step through
— but he was taken and
accounted for, in thrall
to a dream.
You reached for me,
one riddle at a time,
standing between
the Choiceless Choice
and a dream
— just one chance was given me
to let my world come crashing down,
and give up all my certainties;
yet, I could not bring myself to love
such a thing of flesh and blood,
and so I did what I must do:
I took your chance,
given only once,
and settled for the dream of you.
Apr 27
Apr 27, 2026 at 2:17 AM UTC