Sorry I’m late
I’m sorry I’m late for this life.
Can I borrow someone’s notes?
I had the wrong location written down.
Consequently, I got a lesson on love
that never really applied to me.
So I went to another location,
but that was the wrong vocation.
I tried something else somewhere else,
and that lesson lasted a while
before I discovered
that wasn’t right either.
I thought maybe I should return
to the location of my first vocation.
I thought I had nailed it this time
I just needed more education.
So I lingered there.
I drank tomes and I bled sweat.
When it was time to finally accelerate
my body ran out of gas at the side of the road.
So I sat.
I waited for a tow truck.
I opened my dusty guide book and looked.
A driver I had known all along
refueled me and sent me on. my way.
I had read my guide book wrong all along.
I was never at the right location
or in the right vocation.
So here I am.
Hoping I got it right this time.
What did I miss?
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I can relate. I think of myself as a late bloomer.
Life, where you get the test first and the lesson later!
Such a playful tone with an undercurrent of desperation! Love it!
Great concept. Good stuff.
Thank you, my awesome tribe of fellow poets! You are all marvelous.
I love how your poem starts out especially first 4 lines—so engaging and where you went with poem and the tow truck !