Never Assume

she was taken by surprise as she reached a pinnacle of confusion rather used to hitting the wall this time a mirror blocked her way ‘back to square one’ it seemed to suggest but edgy as she was it mocked her because she was used to running in skewed circles whenever an obstacle loomed and there were too many to brace for ‘surely a curved ball reflection’ with magnification and highlights of the hardship and irritation that had followed her many shadows ‘multiple personalities’ they said but she preferred creative contempt had struggled with lateral thinking but decided to look at the frame to halt for a moment from restlessness and in built deconstruction something began to shift and teased her to inspect the hidden rabbet bevelled surrounds might level her attempts to crash again in terror although anger and paranoia had always been perversely comforting and she was aware of the dangers of rising to futile levels of hope curious with nothing to loose though she gathered a last bit of courage tools of efforts were blunt and rusty she had been screwed for too long and no stretch of imagination could have prepared her the surprise at first she thought that she had stumbled on a safe full of treasures a pot of gold maybe or ancient charted conveyance of how to proceed instead she walked through a secret passage and never looked back 08th August 2020