Here´s a jolly little piece to cheer everyone up. The word `across´ in line 5 was originally `upon´ but I changed it because I think `upon´ is regarded as outdated these days. Actually, I prefer it, and `across´ is not quite right because rowing in circles is not moving across. Any comments/help?
A Trailer
This is what you´ve dragged behind you
down the whispering, transparent years.
It gave a preview of what was to come.
To that time and place a sense adheres
of rowing in a fog across a lake
in endless rings and slowly dawning fears
of orientation lost, till your belief
in reaching the sunny shore all but disappears.
It hurts to realise how you cringed
like a tenant whose rent is in arrears
when the landlord thunders at his door.
Anger and frustration run down your face in tears,
for like a different Midas, what you touched turned to glass,
a window to show the world your donkey´s ears.
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