Backwards

For many years she tiptoed around

the real and meaningful

in the hope that life would reward

her brave if foolish attempts.

There were walls and circles to walk around,

very many doors to be closed

and a heart to be chained up and locked

and she did indeed do it all with aplomb.

And yet she was shadowed by the meaningful

that lurked in the corners of her daily life

till finally, finally, unexpectedly

it blocked her forward momentum.

She had to go backwards sight unseen

to find that lost meaningful

and although she stumbled and fell

she finally arrived at the door of awareness.

She was welcomed, of course, with open arms

but now she can never return

but that’s okay because she knows

she had to be there to be here.

And so of journeys let them not ever be

a complete and utter waste of time

by propelling us forward and not backwards

into awareness of the meaningful!