A Muddy Tire, or Just Keep Spinning

Everybody's got a routine...

A tire gets stuck in the mud,

the tread gets filled with soggy, decomposed earth

and you don’t move - you can’t move.

But…do you want to move?

I mean, just keep spinning in the same place,

and the mud will smooth over

into one slick, seamless, perfect circle. And isn’t that what people want?

Seamless perfection?

Isn’t that what some people waste decades trying to find?

But you have it here and now: perfection.

You got it! You made it!

You felt it - heaven.

But…you still can’t move.

So should you change your mind,

too bad, so sad.

It may form a perfect circle, yes,

spinning in place for some time

and smoothing over into a slick surface,

and for where the tire's at, it’s expected

and becomes the norm,

but then there’s no traction, no leverage,

no progress - you can't get better.

PUSH HARDER!

GIVE IT SOME GAS!

It’s the only solution that makes sense,

therefore it is the only solution that is employed,

but it’s not what’s needed.

More aggression makes the tire spin faster,

but it can’t go anywhere because it’s so full

of the very thing that it tried to overcome;

it’s so caught up in trying to do the same thing

over and over and over and over,

seeking salvation in successive compulsion.

YOU'RE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH!

Discouraging screams and defragmenting rebukes

caesarically stabbing you from every angle;

they now call you Sisyphus

as they scream your ever-recurring failure from the skyscrapers.

Some people spend their whole life in the

same routine: work…paycheck…pay bills…

rinse and repeat…

because it’s what helps them get by

and offers only a glimpse

of hope for a better outcome;

but the tire is still spinning in place

and a retrograde transformation takes place:

the tire begins to change shape, lose form,

lose the tough outer covering, tread and all body,

hollows out, and turns into a hamster wheel,

and we the hamsters,

in order to form a more perfect life,

just keep spinning,

without ever taking an initiative for progress.

Because we have been spoon-fed by our big brothers certain unalienable rights:

 

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Life - because we live;

Liberty - because we choose how to live;

and the Pursuit of Happiness,

because we can always pursue it,

but never catch it.

Reviews

[jay verma]

Nice and honest poem,,deeply from the heart.
Good work :)