Guilt of the Rubicon line

Cherry

By smokejack

Fri, 12 Dec 2014
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You can’t go back

To where you don’t belong

There’s no sentimental journey

Heading back to the ranch

If your family tree has no history

Just a rotting broken branch

 

You can’t go back

To what you never knew

There’s no picture painted

Of a child playing on a beach

If all you recall, is a tall

Shadow out of reach

 

The point of no return

Is the day that you were born

When the holy water

Is proof you’ve been sworn

Into a world that at times

Is not so warm

 

If we could see our future

From an early age

Maybe more of us

Would get out of the cage

And swim across the sky

Instead of waiting to die

 

You can’t go back

Photographs do not lie

Neither does time

You can’t go back

Once you have crossed

The guilt of the Rubicon line

 

©JMcN 2014

 

 

 

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Comments

Submitted by Mr. Moon on

for me, this is a charged and evocative poem about the feelings of loss and desire for the life that never was but could have been and the feelings of frustration concerning the power - or lack thereof - to shape the countours of one's own life: 'If we could see our future/ From an early age/ Maybe more of us/ Would get out of the cage/ And swim across the sky/ Instead of waiting to die'. indeed. beautiful and powerful. roused my own feelings of sadness but still, i enjoyed reading. :)

 

Submitted by smokejack on

Hi Mr Moon, you have a good eye! I often think of lives of others albeit family, old friends or strangers I spot in public. I saw an old black and white 1950's photgraph on a wall that prompted me to wrtie this piece. I'm often saddened by the despair of people who through no fault of their own appear to endure more than enjoy life becasue of circumstance.My own experience of hard times contributed to this piece also.

Thank you for taking time out to comment your words are much appreciated.