Necessity
Dec 01, 2007 in Poetry
Sometimes when your world changes,
momentarily it goes unnoticed.
Life still runs you at a ragged pace,
and business moves you along from minute to minute.
Sometimes when the landscape shifts,
it’s not readily taken in.
Your life is lived on schedule,
meshed from one event to the next.
And it’s only when you finally stop,
reaching for a familiar signpost.
Your fingers stretched wearily, ready to grasp.
But it’s not there, not where it should be.
Sometimes when your world changes,
you continue living in the old one,
until necessity makes that impossible.