Stuck

Author’s Note: This short poem was inspired by the picture below.  It started out as a reflective piece, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to fit better as a poem.  So I switched up the layout, made a few tweeks and now it’s a poem.  I wrote this piece when I was feeling especially alone.  I hope you can feel my feeling defeat and lonlieness throughout this piece, because there was a lot of it running through my mind when I wrote it.

sometimes I feel like this tree

just out on my own

even though birds pass over

or even land on the branches

they don’t stay for very long  

just long enough

to earn my trust

and then to throw it back in my face

as they fly away

and here I sit

letting the cool waves

wash over me  

they are never powerful enough

to knock me over

but strong enough

to discourage me from moving

forward.  

I feel adrift

it’s like i’m walking through this world

with a blindfold on

and nobody will stop to help me

all I do is trip and stumble

it’s only a matter of time

before I refuse to get back up