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waiting for the clock
Posted July 21, 2010. © Copyright 2010 d.w.moody Some rights reserved.
- i am sitting in my girlfriend’s bedroom
- the weak light of the only lamp
- illuminating the page before me
- i am sipping coffee and getting ready
- to head off to work
- while in my mind i keep thinking about ego
- and the eightfold path
- i am 38 and feel so much time has passed
- my accomplishments so little
- i am not even a footnote in a history book
- i get angry for not getting a promotion
- for the slights i perceive against me
- while at work or about
- i tell myself how i am smarter or better
- than others in the room
- i criticize the opinions of those i disagree with
- feel my collar get hot from it all
- but it is all just ego
- just ego that i have let run amok
- develop a false sense of superiority
- while i run around on the hamster wheel
- i look abut and the future is still unwritten
- my time though
- grows shorter as each year comes to pass
- and my body it itches for movement
- for action
- for change
- while i sit here and get ready to head out the door
- i have a paycheck
- and bills to worry about
- and an ego to wrestle with
- to let go of
- to pass
- to accept
- while never settling
- to keep moving forward
- while knowing
- while accepting
- i may never be
- even a footnote
- in the annals of history
