K. Paige Poet Free verse

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.

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FJ Thomas April 18, 2018 at 8:32 AM Man K people do this in so many different ways. Its definitely a piece one has to read again. Welcome to PS K!

Faraz Ajmal April 7, 2018 at 2:07 PM A really nice written poem with a meaningful message, but how can we achieve something we haven t even dream of, so dreaming is nice, to me dreams are what we think we can achieve, a hope but if these aren t fulfilled, instead of being broker move on with life, guess what my mocks have recently finish, I m doing O levels and my last exams were mock, now waiting for CIEs in April, good luck and welcome to poetrysoup