Mock Arrival
you say that you’ve arrived
with some special kind of person
in some special kind of place
with some special kind of job
but you’re deprived
missing your exit after work on the drive
to pretend that you’re skipping town
and leaving everything behind
to find something which cannot be defined
a fantasy of playing god for a day
shaking up the earth in some kind of way
to throw yourself onto a different driveway
with a different kind of person
in a different kind of place
with a different kind of job
how many times have you
willed your life to turn upside down?
thinking to yourself,
‘this is it… this has to be it’
you’ve convinced yourself that
this next chapter will be your greatest hit
until you look around to see a ghost town
once again
you’re inside out and upside down
chasing a make-believe life
you cannot live without
k.p.
Copyright © K. Paige | Year Posted 2018
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