Drama

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