One Life to Live
“Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life,” asked Mary Oliver.
I shrugged, put down cup
rolled the question around some
no answer arrived
One life fully lived
what did that mean exactly?
Live with no regrets?
Need lots of money
travel all over the globe
ride tame elephants
drive race cars on tracks
live fast-a worry free me
running with the boys
Rocking at concerts
head backstage to the party
I’d flirt with danger
What about my job?
my apartment, my mortgage?
who pays while I play?
Who writes my stories
so characters don’t stalk me?
who achieves my dreams?
If they did win through
would they hand over my dream
beribboned and bowed?
No, I didn’t think so.
It’d be fun to play all day
hard work makes dreams true
I lived one life safe
stayed within bounds, slogged to work
that’s the price of dreams.
My tale pained Mary
she didn’t understand me
my dreams were not hers.
I sipped my cold tea
its sweeter now from the wait
I watched Mary go.
My life was not wild
It was precious to me, how
fragile dreams can be
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for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie: Writing Prompt 153 collage #20
這真的太好了….謝謝你阿
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Oh… yes dear. Dreams and realities are a bit opposites and your words make a lot of sense about those two. 🙂
Love these:
My life was not wild
It was precious to me, how
fragile dreams can be
I can relate!
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Me too! Thank you! Dreams and reality have always been opposites for me; they have never been able to cohabitate in my 9-5, M-F daily existence but I am working on narrowing that gap 🙂
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Haha. Yes you can, Mel! 😀 Slowly but surely!
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I’m working on it 🙂
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WOW WOW WOW, you really rocked the collage!
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Thank you 🙂 I didn’t create it, I just used it for inspiration 🙂
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I know the blog author who creates the collages–not personally, but I used to write to them as well.
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oh that’s cool 🙂
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I love these. You brought out the stark contrast between dreams and reality so well. I particularly love the lines ‘tea getting sweeter in the wait’ and ‘my dreams were not hers’.
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Thank you 🙂 the prompt struck a chord
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You are welcome
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Perfect and real!
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Thank you! I have my meeting 3 minutes. i will find out how the day will go and let you know if I can find time for a collab. I hope i can.
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Great! I hope you get some relief!!
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not today…it’s been crazy ever since that meeting.
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I am sorry!
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I think tomorrow and most of Fri will be more of the same since my coworker will be at a conference next week. We have to get everything in this week.
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That is understandable. Let me know when things calm down for you and I will be waiting. 🙂
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Will do 🙂 hopefully next week will be quieter. Some of the higher ups will be at a conference out west mid-week. I’ll be around over the weekend too.
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Great.
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You are rally good at these.
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Thank you 🙂 I can’t help but write a story.
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it would be live till I know I have..
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Yes, struggle to live on my friend 🙂
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