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Thursday, October 19, 2023

hesitation


by timothy t jones

thanks to nooshin azadi, for the idea for this poem



i dreamed
in another life

i was a monkey
sitting on the shore
of a desert island

trying to catch a fish
and behind me in the jungle
a terrible beast roared

i was all these things

i was the monkey that sat
and the fish that swam
and the beast that roared

and i was a grain of sand on the beach
and a wave in the ocean
and a beam from the sun

i was all these things
and more
because life is a dream

yes, life is a dream
i know this
and yet

i hesitate

to jump off tall buildings
walk in the traffic
or sleep in the river



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