Stale Gum Poem by Holly Jamestone

O, Love affair subsided
Directionless, shell-shocked
Vacantly walking away, bleary-eyed
Pondering, wandering

Putting on walking shoes
Becoming a navigator
Carefully planning a future course
Residual sadness, possibly still stuck

Alas, one foot remaining in the muck
A frivolous temporary roadblock
Needing pause to reevaluate the journey
With emotional road map in hand

Tentative plan of seeking out a brighter
Well-lit road with no orange cones
Nor pulsating yellow caution lights
Or needless obstacle courses

One foot in front of the other
Walking shoe fortuitously detects
A sticky sensation underfoot
A veritable doorman of exit

Embracing this used piece of gum
Gladly chewing it along the journey
Until its flavor has been spent
Symbolic of the exhausted love

Temptation now mundane
The clouds clearing from the sun
All false hope thankfully chewed up
While discarding into a passing manhole this
STALE GUM

(6-18-2011)
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