Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Passed Over



If being passed over inimitably declaims you’re the 
has-been you couldn’t believe you’ve been seeing 
gilded in th' mirror of destiny, take a hint - it is you
although the truth is still a long way away from the 
reality you’ve already learned t' live comfortably in, 
it isn’t th’ role you assumed you’d been selected t’ 
play - given the rest of the cast has yet to come to 
terms with & redress their stereotypic characters 

But you’re already streets ahead of ‘em around th’ 
corner into freedom blessed with that anomie they 
couldn’t see or contemplate as shaping the plot; &  
it isn’t theirs whether they like it or not - so you are
free - and your choice is t’ be whomever you want, 
so I’ll take the passover role its lent for my sanity 
© 21 September 2017, I. D. Carswell 

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