Precipice

Texte: forward along the cliff-edge – The Composer Says This is How We Should Live Our Lives by Patricia Fargnoli

The eyes focus forward to future days
While silent thoughts visualize the changing ways
When dreaming is the way living will be
Instead of tittering on the knife-edge
And barely gazing out across the sea
The journey must start with the biggest leap
As the footstep becomes the giant stride
That leaves behind the broken tears that weep
For chances lost in all that the heart denied
Emotions shatter as they slip and slide
With no privacy in the public gaze
All those words of hate make the going steep
As aching feet fumble from ledge to ledge
On the precipice towards destiny

© JG Farmer 2013

Notes:

Prompt: http://theboipoet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whimsical-wednesday-09-october-2013.html

Form: Ivorian Sonnet CII