PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

in a crowd of such determined strangers

I sit a fidget

alert yet ready to take to perch

and fly away

in a moment of infinite self doubt

I question my very own being here

my benefit of this offered experience

hopefully

in the end

shall benefit a great many others

I have yet to face

or wholly interact with

people for whom I shall

on another more fortunate day

encounter

my conscience guides me

even in my confusion and excited

anticipation

I so decide to keep my seat and stay

and not wonder off

as I had in the initial moment

originally intended

out of the thick of doubt and all her

clamoring baggage

I recover enough to listen

to really listen

this time

and not simply hear

as I have done so many times before in

my life

too ignorant to know otherwise

why this uniquely engaging class

could then be the greatest teacher of my

very own yet fully lived life

like a child being guided out

through the fearfulness of dark

I am similarly relieved

and oh so very thankful............

(Dec. 4, 1998)