Learning To Float

Life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. - Thoreau

adrift

still carrying the tarnished, double-edged sword for the dragons i once smote

trying to repeat wisdom of the past that i feel obliged to quote

i keep trying to cross a castle-less moat

but i'm weary and there's a hole in my boat

there must be a higher ground to stand upon in order to gloat

no matter where i go

no matter what i do

thinking i know where i'm headed when i really have no clue

the sails i hoist blown by winds that gasp taboo

tomorrow's hands clutched firmly around my throat

perhaps one day i'll take the easy route

and simply

learn to float

Author's Note

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson