Leaving The Cave

The best shadow boxer of all time . . .

The best at holding the hand-pads for others . . .

The best fighter who never was . . .

The Champ that was never born. . .

The caterpillar who hid, never becoming a butterfly . . .

The fire that died out . . . Leaving behind nothing but ashes . . .

The man who almost did something. . .

The dragon that stayed a lizard . . .

A magic well left untapped . . .

A dream left slept on . . .

A direction with no wind . . .

Life left to die . . .

A story untold . . .

A timeline that wasn’t . . .

A man given freedom, only to choose beautiful distractions . . .

Deeper than regret, scars that he can never forget . . .

A soul left inside of a cage . . .

Eyes that hold the universe in them . . .

An infinite amount of choices in every moment . . .

Grabbing at the fountain of youth, trying to hold it, as it slips through the cracks in his hands . . .

A seed that never grew into a tree . . .

. . .

No progress has been made 

No treasure at the end of this pain

No dragon to slay

Just me myself and I, day after day

And all the choices I’ve made . . .

Another shadow on the floor

Another shitty metaphor

Another fight I’ve ignored 

Another beautiful lady  

Another step towards going crazy

More wasted love . . .

More unheard prayers floating up above . . . only disappear into the air . . .

Just a scared kid, who never grew up to live . . .

Another addict who lives in fear . . .

Another second, minute, hour, month and year . . . with no change . . .

Another day feeling strange . . .

Escaping from the present, while sleeping on the past, he puts on another show

And the seed never grows

The cave becomes his new home

Of course he’ll spend this life alone

What man is worth the cave?

No man is . . . 

What life is worth the pain?

Only when we find the courage to leave our homes; to turn off our shows; to mute our phones;

Can we grow.

Only when we leave our cave,

Can we live again. 

CH 7/27/24