I'm a Floater - May 31, 2024

Gary Hunter
May 31, 2024
1 min read

of course we had to listen

as children we needed food love

domestication and to learn

about this place we lived in

cut chiseled and shaped

we grew until finally

on our own knew we

had to face the riddle alone

what to do where to go

in this world one small jig-

sawed piece of a giant puzzle

looking for a space to fit

I never found mine

no passionate snap into a gap

where a life or career

became instantly clear

so I ended up a floater

an unfitted fragment

there’re lots of us strewn

around the edge of the table

that get up and move

around occasionally

half-heartedly wondering

at our age

how we would handle

the shock of a perfect fit

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