A collection of complications
I'm stacking them up
Faster than I can count
Just waiting for them to tumble
Did I leap to soon?
Caution was always my card
Forever stashed up my sleeve
Ready to be played
But not yet, not yet
Just wait a little longer
A little more time
'til the dust settles
'til I catch my breath
'til my thoughts stop racing
Just a minute more, an hour, a day
A little too much scrutiny
I'm being drawn out of the shadows
Into the centre of attention
Though I duck and dodge the spotlight
It finds me again
Just another week, another month
A moment of peace
That's all I need
Let me collect my thoughts
Breathe again
And just be.
A complex and intriguing mix of hesitance and urgency. Well written. Keep it up! :D
ReplyDeleteOh, those complications sometimes do manage to follow a person, don't they? You dodge one, and another comes to find you! Hopefully in between we find a time to breathe.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for just the right time, the perfect moment...our desire for perfection makes it so easy to perpetuate our incompleteness. This is a very smart and well rendered poem. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteSteve K.
I feel the intensity.
ReplyDeletetoo soon for what I want to know now :-)
ReplyDeleteyou're teasing us, aren't you?
Complications, caution and time to breathe. The latter should help with the former, smiles.
ReplyDeletei think that perfect moment never comes...like one can't stop the waves of the sea and bathe...nice lines triggering many thoughts...
ReplyDeletewhen i read " faster than i count" i could feel the poem read itself so fast... i finished it in seconds and realised the last line said it all!!
ReplyDeleteTake your time :-)
ReplyDeleteNice piece!
ZQ