Benjamin Clements

USA

bac0817@yahoo.com

Patience

A slap in the face
to live so close to ways of escape.
Prison guards
of circumstances point their scopes
at me, and seemingly 
Only Me!
At night when watching 
TV,
planes
coming and going 
to and from 
places unlike here,
places free from the 
cobwebs and stains of
responsibility,
force me to turn it 
up a notch.
Phone calls interrupted 
by that, and
scheduled trains 
which shake the house like an
alarm-
clock, waking me to the 
reality of things.
A jalopy
fixed
with ball and chain,
allergic to long distances.
Yet it takes me to 
places close,
places which lead to 
places to far and free,
and I am young, and 
Life is
Long.
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