Free Cee Sea Past the Mast
SEA PAST THE MAST
For most folks I know……..
that which has come to pass is stowed well away in the past
They’ve cast off the shadows and shelters of their history
However my past is wedded to withering woe and the winter’s wind so blistery
Betrothed to the frigid frostiness of fear and a foregone conclusion of catastrophe
While frustration takes center stage
With rage as my bounty yet confined by a cage
Penned up without a pen to jot down random thoughts and notions
Impounded and pounded by a mallet of emotions
Shut in by shame and a game only losers are allowed to participate in
As secular spirits are secluded secretly with the insight to anticipate sin
I am hemmed in, cooped up and enclosed within a crate indicated by hate
In my case that which has come to pass is also my tomorrow while my tomorrows leaves me aghast
A state in which I’ve too often been found in the distant and most recent past
It’s as if I am a once strengthened sailboat,
a sloop that used to split the waves to weather well and willfully the tides
A vessel that now hides amongst other sails with a splintered and superfluous mast
While the heralded headings homeward toward is that which a compass shall never confide
Forced to suffer the forecast of failure and the sea’s strident stringency in stride
But the very saddest thing of all about what progression relegates to the past………..
Is that the vapor of this very millisecond has become a part of the past so fast
©2012…..PHREEPOETREE ~free cee!~
Copyright © Jeffry Cohan | Year Posted 2012
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