Tamanna

15

one day
like all other days
after walking out of the grey box where you use your too expensive schooling to drive forward corporate america
you get in your car
you start the ignition
you drive

you approach a fork in the road
there is a red light
you turn on the left blinker since your wooden fort of a home lies to the left

but then an impulse washes over you
takes you under
and for no other reason except that you are bound by the freedom to do anything in this life
you turn on the right blinker instead

green
you drive

where to now?
you don’t know, but you go there anyway

sparks of actual life
the stuff of excitement and adventure and wow
reach up like heat waves from the white lines on the road
through the mechanics of the engine
into the mechanics of your metaphorical heart

that day
unlike all the other days
you feel the consequences

all at once
life - bleary, washed out - snaps back into focus

all at once
you are no longer free

it’s all catching up
and finally
you suffer the consequences

and you can’t wait
because finally
finally
you feel something again