Sometimes
You have to be
Aware
Of the world
Which wraps itself
Around you
I don't mean
So much
The womb
Or the tomb
Or even
The nuts and bolts
I mean
The bits
In-between
The pieces
We're usually
Too busy
To notice
Because often
They're the little
Signs
And symbols
The hidden robots
And secret assassins
Which point to us
And tell us
We're on
The right path
We're travelling
The right way
We're going
Where we should be
And however
Jumbled
This puddle of confusion
Might seem
There's a clear reflection
On the other side
And though we don't
Always notice
It is
Always
There
Our internal
Shepherd
Guiding us
Through
These days
Of night
Comments
I liked this. One of the things poetry does is to sensitise us to what we might otherwise miss and this poem does that memorably.
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Harry O'Neill
Sat 25th Oct 2014 15:19
It all depends on what `the little assassins` are
assassinating.