on the move

 

 

in over our heads,

out of our comfort zone,

on the move

over an unforgiving landscape,

under a forbidding sky;

by the skin of our teeth,

between paradise and perdition,

off we go

of our own free will,

against all common sense;

up to no good,

down and out,

to be, or not to be,

from sense to sensibility,

around and around we go

from one extreme to the other;

to sleep, perchance to dream,

down under the covers

up under our chins;

against the grain

of the long see-saw,

off we go

between rocks and hard places,

by hook, or by crook,

under the influence,

over countless objections,

on the move,

out we slip and slide

into the void.

 

                    —D. W. McMillen

                   24 April  2008

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