Murphy’s Bye-Laws

Law #4: Any Fool Can Make A Rule and Any Fool Will Mind It. –H.D. Thoreau

Shipwreck

Adrift on a sea of circumstance

clinging to a raft of apathy

burning under the fiery sun of fear

and hoping for breezes fair,

hoping for breezes fair.

.

Time, it swishes slowly

hanging in the salty air

Sloshing against the apathy

and dissolving in the fear,

dissolving in the fear.

.

Seeing only hopeless horizon

a smooth, long, endless line

desolate of any dream or land

no place on which to gaze,

no place on which to gaze.

.

Weary from the waiting

tired and tempest-tossed

the unfurled sail of an idea

pushes the castaway on

pushes a sailor on.

4 Responses to “Shipwreck”

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  2. Brian Carpenter Says:

    I’m not one for poetry, but I keep coming back and reading this. I really like it.

  3. PintofStout Says:

    Thanks, Brian. Like most art forms, nothing is for everyone yet there is always something for everyone. Whatever speaks to you, I guess.

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