"One of Those Days"
My reward for braving it
Out of the warm security of bed and blankets
Is an icy avalanche
Full of coincidence and calamity.
Today, I have the disastrous touch.
I can botch any job,
Shatter the unbreakable,
And do the unthinkable,
Without even trying.
"It's really nobody's fault,"
So they say.
"You're just at the wrong place
At the wrong time on the wrong day.
Wouldn't happen again
In a million years or more."
I look up and scream at the heavens,
"Why? Why? Why me?"
Can I go back to bed
And take calamity with me?
Burrow under the covers
And hide embarrassment under my pillow?
Save the world from my disastrous self.
Erase this day.
And forget...
That this was one of those days.
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I was born in Jersey and spent most of my life living wherever the military sent my dad. Studied broadcasting and writing. Am an avid ecclectic collector of friends, music, books, movies, and stuff. View profile
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3 Comments
Post a CommentYes, I have had one of those days. . . well phrased here!
Mike Sutherland beat me to it; some of those days I think I have "one of those lives" kind of a life. This helps; my reward for braving it, is, a million years from now, it won't seem all that horrid.
Excellent poetry. You got one for "one of thoes lives"