Anywhere But Nowhere

When ceilings were cast on dreams air thickened, swelling lungs with unbreathable mediocrity pen is clutched in reluctance of dim witted judgement, small minded skewed views, all pushing towards Oprah Book Club fame under a midwestern bubble. That trophy would shine like the second hand cars surrounding When ceilings were cast on dreams a terrified scream evaded me as lips were bit in the traditional small town offend-me-not fashion, my pen faultered and died... Fear is passion disapating into lonely corners accepting it's quiet demise Never realizing sea breeze or sunrise alive and never living while calendar pages fly by abandoning Regret is for mourning souls past possibilities of redirection and compromise I break westward stepping over spilled milk toward angular man made mountains Now the pond fish evolution begins as I swim in bigger waters insignificant and loving it feeling anonymity breed inhibition and onward to infamy toward my name etched in spines and altitudes I make my own **inspired by John Heck's "Edge" contest