Wednesday, January 11, 2017

The End of the Chain

Sniffing like a bloodhound
along trails ripe with news
and never looking up
for direction, I never thought
there might be a limit
until I hit the end
of the leash.

And there they were,
fogs and walls,
dank, grey, nothing
about them to suggest
an end to anything,
much less, thought.

No signs, no flaming bush.
how simple, how easy,
to surrender
to the limit of the chain,
even with a promise
of a very, very long chain …
and a collar
that might not chafe.

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