Take a number and wait until you're called.
Published on April 27, 2007 By dynamaso In Poetry

You say you want to drive
I ask where you want to go
You say you’re looking for a break

You grip the wheel tight
You say it makes you feel safe
But sometimes you just got to let go

You are too easily distracted
And I am too easily startled
To be a good navigator

So we circle the roundabout
Losing our exit time after time
Is it our fate to be lost in traffic?

You ignore the rear-view
Don’t want to see the damage
Left in the wake of no indication

To be on the safe side
I wish you would belt up
And let me steer this conversation

To its logical end

Comments
on Apr 27, 2007
If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman around to hear it, is he still wrong?   

Another good one, Maso!
on Apr 27, 2007

good stuff maso, love to read you, wish you would write more.

 

peace, elie

on Apr 28, 2007
I hope you are setting these words to music.

good stuff.
on Apr 29, 2007
I like this. It talks of driving, yet it says so much more! The reading between the lines, metaphors for life!
on Apr 29, 2007
Shovel,

If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman around to hear it, is he still wrong?


Probably... Aint that how it is supposed to go, mate?

Another good one


Thanks, Joe.

Elie,

good stuff maso, love to read you, wish you would write more


Thanks so much, mate. I've been pretty busy of late, hence my not being here as much as I'd like. Still, as you know, life has to go on and sometimes it actually overtakes one. Good to see you and hope you're feeling okay.

Whip,

Thanks again.

Kelly,

Wow, thought you'd fallen off somewhere It is good to see you too. Hope you and yours have been well.

I hope you are setting these words to music


You know, I hadn't even thought about it. These days, I expend most of my music creativity just writing new pieces for Jarrod to put words to, but I am sure I could write a suitable piece for these words. Thanks for the suggestion. If I come up with anything good, I'll let you be the first to hear it.

Serenity,

it says so much more


All good poetry should say much more. I love the fact I can write a single word and, depending on who reads it, the interpretation is wide open. Thanks for your comments. Glad you liked it too.