The WXW 30/30 Poetry Challenge 2014
Day 21 of 30: alone with everybody
Too Far Away
No-one understood, no-one could even pretend to understand
because he was so far away: a boy with a written destiny,
a written fate he couldn't even hope to overcome,
Not like the rest of them drifting,
drifting about, trying to find their way:
that little river that would eventually lead to the sea
their future spells
But for him, there was only one path, wide and without forks
and leading to somewhere different
to the rest of those finer lines.