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
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2020
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