Steps
I don’t walk much, no matter how much I dream I could
Whether it be at night or when awake, I dream I could walk and I can but I won’t
I only notice how little steps I make when I see the world has moved, the trees are dead and the grass is cold but I haven’t moved an inch
But everyone else can make leaps.
I never will, what do they do I dont?
Why do I have to be the one who knows he can move but never can?
I know why they leap and I don’t but I still don’t know how to leap.
I can imagine the leap I can dream of the leap but make the leap? Fantasy.
Is it fear?
Yes, but fear does overcome my need to leap so what else?
Not knowing how?
It’s true I don’t know how, never did know how but I could leap so it can’t be that
Is it the world? Is the world weighing me down meaning the leaps don’t leap?
Yes or maybe no. Maybe it’s me.
I make some small steps, small yes but still forward but the step isn’t a leap and the steps are so far apart sometimes I forget I even stepped
I still move in the steps and the world still changes and the other people still leap
Maybe in a decade I will have stepped enough to leap but I will still be stepping whilst they will be leaping
Graham Sherwood
Fri 7th May 2021 10:25
A great opener here on WOL. Well done!