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Unyielding

by Steven Craig



There are some facets to my personality.

There is such a deep and serious side to me
that must be balanced with humor,
that humor can be pointed in most any direction.
There is this stinging,
this intense side of me that lives,
that goes out into the world,
that survives,
that returns each day,
that when not countered with some mind flexing,
with some off the wall smile
and near stoic English understatement,
would certainly crave me into someone dreaded.

I am of course,
a writer.
I have been one all my life,
and I still have the words I started with
when I was 12.
Writers are creative,
sensitive,
involved,
and when you thrust that into the mix of events in my life,
it makes me who I am,
not necessarily who I wanted to be
when I started out,
but what I became in the passing.

You are like that as well.
You are here in this place in time,
not by choice,
but induced by your life,
your encounters,
your misfortunes
and
your unlooked for jewels of happiness.
You have the relationship that matters
because you have it.
When you were 12,
it is highly unlikely
that you set out to be who you are today,
with the life you share,
the place you live,
the moments that are now so important.

All along those steps,
you acquired this dream that matters.
Personal, deep, quiet, unyielding.
It is not the dream that you started with.
But it is the dream that matters.
Nothing can be so thoroughly judged in advance
that can give you the peace and security of knowledge
that you have taken all the correct paths,
rolled your dice unerringly,
grasped the proper hand,
and given yourself to the only one that
in the end really mattered.

But you were there
to do something with your life,
and you did live it,
no matter how reluctantly,
no matter how ravishingly,
you did more than most certainly
and here is where the scale of that life
judges your choice.

Each of us will view the ocean of our lives
in unique texture,
and there is where we will be found
when anyone cares to look again.


03/12/2009

Posted on 03/12/2009
Copyright © 2024 Steven Craig

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