A Place He Never Really Belonged

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance. - Thoreau

Footprints in the sand.

Washed up on dry land.

Should we strike up the band?

Desperately dark canyons and caves.

Inhabited by slaves.

Remote chasms and schisms.

Created in a black book of truisms.

Lives chiseled in ancient tablets.

Jackhammered and judged through substantial stone.

A breakthrough was finally born.

Emerging on the other side.

The front row where he was too close and had been substantially wronged.

Until he realized that it was in ...

... a place he never really belonged ...

Author's Note

"There is on the earth no institution which friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants." - Thoreau