Saturday, May 7, 2016

Digging a Beautiful Hole

Digging a Beautiful Hole

his imagination left him speechless
when abandoning the motorized grass-cutting vehicle he
in all intents dealt fate a hungry blow
digging a most beautiful hole
 
it has no practical purpose other than to deter the robbers
and neighbor Nosey even said it would break his own leg someday
but our protagonist would not be deterred;
he was on an emotional strike from suburbia, having left the garden untended
life’s mysteries unintended
 
a story I reflect on long ago
is digging long and far enough will get me to another world
an ocean, a pit of dreams, ageless and dreamless sleep
itching to ground zero with little, not even defeat
 
but time and the paycheque kept him fixed on a mortgage
where did it all go?
making tracks down a shovelful of no control.

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