The moment you decide
to finally get it together
and do something
with your life
is the precise moment
in which something
seems to shift
and by shift I mean
not usually in the direction
you had decided to go
The engine block cracks
the shirt doesn’t fit
the boss calls you in
the creditors start speed dialing
and that mole on your back
suddenly doesn’t look so good
This seems to be a way
of truth
Just when you think
you’re taking control
these detours appear
forcing you onto
strange and dangerous
roads
with signs that read
“No Control Next 50 Miles”
and
“Uncertainty Ahead”
Keeping you aware
of the fact that
you will never
have it together
Not in this life
baby
24 responses so far ↓
1 Salazar | 6 Nov 2006
You should send this out.
2 Jecklin | 6 Nov 2006
Not with an attitude like that you won’t! haha…nah, good one.
My experience with the shifts and challenges is they tend to put me back on track and a little farther down the road…even if not initially apparent.
I don’t assume to be in control of anything other than how, and with what feeling, I respond to any situation.
And that aint saying I have it together…
3 Jessica Doyle | 6 Nov 2006
Ah, so many things to keep us aware of limitations eh? I think though it is a mind thing. The mind limits our ability to understand. It needs reason.
Thanks for the link Robert :) I like the compiler idea!
4 Brian Clark | 6 Nov 2006
Preach, Bother!
Amen to that.
5 Brian Clark | 6 Nov 2006
Uhhh… that was supposed to be “Brother.”
Don’t get all Freudian on me… :)
6 candice | 6 Nov 2006
or you get hosed over by total disaster.
I am just now getting to some things I had intended to do in 2005.
7 Robert Bruce | 6 Nov 2006
Salazar - I would, but I’m too lazy. Thanks for the compliment…
8 Robert Bruce | 6 Nov 2006
Jessica - Yeah, very true. A stripping off of the fat, the excess I guess. Back on track. Or, back at the track.
9 Robert Bruce | 6 Nov 2006
Brian - I knew it. I just knew it ;)
10 Robert Bruce | 7 Nov 2006
Candice - Yep, I tend to focus a little close sometimes… good add on your part.
Completely outside our ability to do anything about it.
11 candice | 7 Nov 2006
Pretty much, yeah. (Mind you we’ve all met our share of self-righteous assholes who believe in a just world, but that’s neither here nor there.)
12 Hisham | 7 Nov 2006
Good stuff!
13 Mark Goodyear | 8 Nov 2006
I wish I could be in Oregon for “Works Works.” Awesome poem, man.
Specifically,
“The engine block cracks
the shirt doesn’t fit
the boss calls you in”
That is some great rhythm and powerful imagery. Those three lines make this poem for me. The more I look at them the more I like them. Thanks for sharing.
Tip of the hat to Brian for sending me here! (And loved your video ad for him, too.)
14 Robert Bruce | 9 Nov 2006
Hisham - Thanks, been a while…
15 Robert Bruce | 9 Nov 2006
Mark - As you know, Brian can be blamed for many things… he’s done a lot to help me out around here.
Glad you made it. Just subscribed to Hill Country Writer.
16 ren.kat | 9 Nov 2006
Ain’t that the truth!
17 Mark Goodyear | 9 Nov 2006
Robert, thanks for subscribing to my blog. I have to warn you that I’m a complete hack. But you’ll figure that out soon enough.
18 AndrewE | 10 Nov 2006
For R.B.
http://writerspace.net/?p=699
19 David Zemens | 10 Nov 2006
Talking Show #28…pretty cool. Thanks again, Robert.
20 Robert Bruce | 11 Nov 2006
ren - Glad you commiserate.
21 Robert Bruce | 11 Nov 2006
Mark - OK, that makes two hacks around here my friend.
22 Robert Bruce | 11 Nov 2006
Andrew - Don’t know what to say man. Thank you.
You Brits know how to lay the lines down. I’m going to have to think up a good comment tonight as I sleep and drop it off at your place tomorrow…
23 Robert Bruce | 11 Nov 2006
David - Glad you like. That last scene spooked me a little bit.
24 Zak | 26 May 2007
words of wisdom, too bad I’m 14 and already know everything. You should be seeing my dad in the next or past few days.
Keep it coming
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