“Sojourn”
Perhaps it’s time to start a journey?
Set a course and quell the yearning.
Unattainable horizons all around.
First step, next step, hit the ground.
Malaise distracts the current route.
Broken compass, travel’s moot.
Awake confused, this life’s a dream.
Wayward ways someday redeem.
Strings on fingers provoke recall.
Remembering a must above it all.
Switch position, lost at sea.
I am looking, I and me.
It often feels quite solitary,
Nonetheless, the blows I parry.
A testament to stubborn will,
I nary tolerate a life born still.
Some souls thrive on things kinetic,
Away I go, in truth, prophetic.
Left fear on dock as I embark,
The rest placed in my life-worn ark.
Once adrift the waves will take,
Away from me for my own sake,
The plot, the line, the guide, the course.
Unknown shores perhaps the worse?
One can’t say without the chance,
If better ways will entrance.
For ways not traveled,
Paths not sowed.
Remain quite raveled,
Hence, unknown.
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Published by Christopher Hickey
Welcome to my effort. Yes, as a great procrastinator, it requires great effort to stay focused on something productive that matters to me. I’ll find any old excuse to traipse from project to project, and I rarely end up at the place I started. I find this maddening, and exhaustive. So it is with high hopes, and a greater grasp of self-awareness, that I embark upon staying the course so to speak.
I enjoy writing. Be it blogs, fiction, poetry, etc. I love the craft and the act of creation, the art in and of itself, for it’s own sake and end. I am happy to be able to do it.
Some stats:
Born: March 1974
Education:
St.Francis de Sales, Charlestown MA
Don Bosco Technical High School, Boston MA
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell MA
Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown MA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
North Virginia Community College, Arlington VA
Harvard Extension School, Cambridge MA
Place of residence: Somewhere in the land of metro Boston. It’s vaguely familiar and becoming home more and more by the day, but when you come from “The Town” all else fails by comparison.
Favorite Color: I’m partial to all forms of blue.
Favorite Author: c’mon! don’t expect me to answer that, there are too many.
I enjoy memories of playing 80’s Atari better than playing any advanced gaming system that exists today.
Some day:
Hope to be recognized for my paper clip collection. As well as my 27 rejected applications to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailiey Clown college.
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