William Masonis Poet Free verse

And That Was When Part 5

And That Was When Part 5

You slowly woke,
The time before receding
Like the tide drawing back from the shore
To a world of new confusions
Pushing the old one back beyond reach,
As though it had never been. 
Its confusions swallowed
All your time
Bore you pitilessly on their tide
Out into their bottomless sea
Until you lost sight of the land whence you began.

And that was when
Those other thoughts came crowding in,
Flowing in on all sides
From all the currents carrying you along
And that was when
So many came to seem
More important than those
You made yourself
Back on the land.
And that was when
Life ran away with you,
Its willing, wondering prisoner.

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