Unfazed

"Be unfazed before obstacles. Though there are crushing walls and boundaries, set no limit, but walk-through” By Poet on a sea strand, have you watched empty shells mercilessly tossed from sea to shore and from shore to sea? often I shrink and reduce to such a shell, with jagged and broken edges, colorless and empty among many castaways, I lie half buried under the sand waiting for some wave to wash me away. how tedious is my voyage shuttling from father to mother and from mother to father unable to openly confess who weighs more on the balance of preference through how many alleys and by ways I have wandered, questioning my identity! am I a puffer fish, being toxic the fisher men have discarded? or a jarring note in a discordant symphony? I wonder! I often ask myself! destined to grow in mercurial climes, planted in arid shallow soil with the tap root trimmed, branches pruned, and growth denied, I, a stunted bonsai! still I dream to be a towering tree, that in profusion gives fruits and shade a midget aspiring to be a Goliath a hollow reed, longing at once to be the singer and the song! ______________________________________ November.7.2022 2022 Marathon Mile.26. Poetry Contest Sponsor- Mark Toney ~Placed Second~ Unburden a ‘U’ Word Poetry Contest Sponsor – Constance La France