Yes

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.   -Carlos Castaneda

Where do I set the fulcrum

to balance

fear and curiosity

too far one way

makes a homebound,

crazy cat lady

paralysis creeping slowly

from extremities to heart

subsisting on

bland, over-filtered sustenance

through electronic i.v.

but too far the other way

 leaves one skewered

on sharp spikes of sarcasm

or burning in fires of

 requited or unreturned love

or lost in the dark labyrinth

of an unknown city

following one way roads

to a dead end

There is no middle ground;

if I close my eyes

and step off the cliff

what revelation will come

on the way down?

Image by Emma Clark at at clarkazcreativedesign.wordpress.com


This is in response to Poets United Thursday Think Tank provided by Ella Wilson.  Click on the link to read the link to read the prompt and lots of other responses.