Monday, July 21, 2014

LEAVE A LIGHT AT EACH CROSSROAD



THE END OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Who’s going to
take you,
break you
and then remake you
into something you have passed through before
yet forged ahead with no notice?

Did you leave a light at every crossroads
and pray for the noise of your shuffling feet
not blow out the glow;
for finding a way to remade is harder
in the dark streets overblown in desert sands
awash in a flash of a forever moment flooded with intolerance.
Can you stand high and safe defining
the moment’s political correctness
and unharness the reality of
what is right yesterday,
wrong today,
and tomorrow;

well tomorrow is not defined yet for no study has been paid for.
Every definition of a part has an engineering cost,
especially high for them needing a loan
to be made into right yesterday,
wrong today,
and tomorrow soft enough to be told where to stand.


Did you leave that light
at every crossroad you
hopefully, slowly, thoughtfully passed
that you may find your  return,
re-turn and remake yourself
rather than have others tell you
who it is you are to become?

© M Durfee
7.21.2014

13 comments:

  1. Miss one crossroad light and all is lost. Remake yourself from scratch with whatever materials are available. Pop people.

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    1. That first part is true, lose one light and you may not make it back to take the other road in the then. But now i am surrounded by shit, totally encased in it. I guess i could make myself into a cow pie.

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  2. I've only left blazes behind me that I call memories. I doubt I'll ever get a chance to retrace my steps, though.

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    1. That Sir is the Bummer of living. Never can go back to the best parts.

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  3. '. . . a light at every crossroads . . .' Where are we going, where have we been?

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    1. Don't know where hell is so i am not sure of the way to where I am going is, but there are some crossroads I'd like to go back to and take the other road.

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  4. ... tomorow will never come ... at least not the tomorrow I desire ... came to terms with that a long time ago ... . and that's okay, baby ... smiles. Love u, Cat.

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    1. Meowmomma i used to believe that until i read about tomorrow and today got smacked in the head with yesterdays newspaper.

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  5. What is going on is their novel, the one they force you to watch. It is not your novel.
    Theough diabolically craftere, their novel sucks canal water!

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    1. It would be so much easier to be nothing more than a character in someone elses writing.

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  6. All I do these days is look back. Could I, would I have done anything different in the same circumstances? Hindsight is easy. Regret is not. xo

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    1. Jodi do not let your sorrow become regret for the past. You did not fail.

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  7. Trying each day to leave a little light. Some days I glow brighter than others.

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