Unexpected

One of my more... juvenile pieces. It's very base, very adolescent. Just leaving it her makes me wonder how it holds to my other pieces. I'm no master of the written nor spoken word, but I can only hope that I've grown and improved from this point.

Unexpected

And it hits me

Then her and him

The kids down the street

The people we’ve yet to meet

Everyone, everyone gets hit

Hit by something

You know something, anything really

Just so... unexpected

Just by random chance selection

And of course, you know, not by our election

As unexpected as the pop quiz in English when you “forgot” to read

Sometimes it’s even as sudden as the passing of a loved one

You know I thought I was special, that I would know when it would happen, that I could predict, and that I’d have time

Time to deal with it, to prepare for it... to be ready for it

But I’m not special, I’m as much a sitting duck as anyone else

Just waiting to get caught in that hurricane

Twirling, whirling, spinning out of control

And hitting the ground hard

We have no braces, no anchors, nothing to tie us down

Nothing to hold us to our perfect little worlds

Light as feathers, just waiting to get sucked by into the vacuum we call life

You know, some of us, like to float

We always talk about learning how to fly, how to escape it all

I dreamed one day I was a rocketeer and that I could just blast off

Out into the galaxy, out where no one could touch me

The farthest reaches of our reality

But no, I was pulled...

Back into the black hole of Fate

Not knowing where I’d go or if I’d stay or even if I’d be okay

And now I’m here

Not sure if I’m... awake