If only life was as simple as to be ordinary
If the biggest day to day drama
Was forgetting something on your grocery shop
If life had a plan and the plan kept true
Followed its course, ran to time
… and budget
Pick and choose a life partner
A career, a family (if you wish)
and good health, please
Instead we lose ourselves in the tributaries
and rolling white water rapids
which confuse and distort
Pulling us from life’s true course
Putting us in temptation’s reach
Plunging us into deep waters
Emerge with mind muddled as our bedraggled appearance
The swell of waves washing fresh drama onto our shore
And dragging a piece of us back to the ocean
copyright © 2019 Karen Horsley