The Friday Poem: Misplaced Ambition

January 29, 2021 at 6:00 am (Poetry)

Misplaced Ambition

Isn’t it strange how you wake up one day

with all these memories inside, and behind, you?

People who’ve influenced your storyline

inhabit space in your mind and take part

in all the stories you tell yourself each day

about what happened and what it means.

Though I’ve a richness of experience

to draw upon, I seem to have misplaced

my forward moving ambition of late.

I’d still like to write literary stories,

marry fantastical plots and prose

that goes with fast-paced action and moments

that thrill, and beauty that can be described.

Draw it all back out, in a silver stream

like a movie film beamed at a screen,

but right now, I just seem to be holding still.

© 2021 Melora Johnson