Hello Again To a Brick Wall
Aaah!.........There you are!
Right on time as usual!
I can always count on you to appear
and be your obnoxious, irritating,
obstruction based, challenging self.
You seem a bit larger than the
last time I encountered you!
Have you been working out,
or just adding more bricks?
When I was choosing my latest
endeavor I did wonder when you
were going to make yourself
known and do what you do so well-
create that moment of indecision,
that moment of having to decide
whether to go right or left around you,
tunnel and go beneath you,
climb over you,
or just like the last time,
toughen up, look straight at you
and go right through you!
You seem to be pretty busy these days
popping up in front of any and everyone
who wants to accomplish something!
I have to give it to you.....you're good!
You make some people back off
and decide to quit, make some linger
not knowing how to approach you,
and make others simply chip away at you
piece by piece until they either tire and quit,
or actually knock you down!
Seriously though, there is something
enormously gratifying about surmounting
you and moving past you!
If it wasn't for you a lot us wouldn't
know the sweet taste of success,
the wondrous feeling of self accomplishment,
the power associated with having a strong will,
or the joy of "stick-to-it-tiveness"
to get to where we want and need to go!
I applaud you for providing the challenge
that you do, but do know this-
our tenacity will overcome you and
our spirit will defeat you!
Oh, you'll keep showing up at the right moment
to provide that test of wills.
You'll even have that look of being
"Invincible, Undefeatable, Uncompromising
and Unforgiving".........
but do know this,
"you're going to get knocked down-
YOU ARE GOING DOWN!!!"
Whatever it takes to either move you completely
or go though you absolutely...
you're getting out of the way!!!
Whatever day and today
WILL NOT be your best day!
So don't be offended or take it personally,
(actually do be offended and take it quite personally)
but right now..
I've no time for you,
Mr. Brick Wall,
Mr. Vision Obstruction,
Mr. Dream Destroyer,
Mr. Aspiration Annihilator!
It is time to go and YES it is personal
because I have business to attend to
and quite frankly.....
YOU ARE IN MY WAY!!!
By the way......
I've decided to go through you!!!
(you remember, just like the last time!)
I don't feel like climbing over you
and I am not digging under
or going around you!
"I'm Going Through......To Get To!"
Oh.....you ask-
"What am I going to do with this sledgehammer?"
IT'S TIME TO GET BUSY!
Oh, before I start and before you go....
when you show up the next time
and every time after that,
expect the same reception
as the last time and this time,
and henceforth!
Ok....Ready...Here we go!!!-
SMASH!!!....CRASH!!!
"WOW! - I can see right through you now!"
Until we meet again......
Later, Mr. Brick Wall!
Copyright © Walter T. Ashe | Year Posted 2016
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