Closures Wide Open

 "When one door closes, another opens."

An opening of a door but not in the literal sense. 

A closing of the same door but only figuratively speaking.

It is closing due to its opening. The very opposite is at force here.

Why bother? 

Maybe because we need to create our own little rooms of hurt. Of pain. Of loss. Of regrettable memories. 

What if the door remained open? 

Maybe it would scare us into reality. Discomfort requires risk.

How many doors are we allowed to keep open? 

Maybe we have closed too many. Carelessly. Without ruminating on the possibilities.

What about the air? Shouldn't it be circulating through the open door and not be held captive?

Maybe we don't want to breathe fresh air. Stale is our comfort zone.

How many times must we open our minds so as not to feel the draft from the slamming door that closes behind us?

Maybe our thoughts have to hit the wall. A door. They need something solid to stop them in their tracks.

If we close our hearts, shouldn't we at least open a vent? How else will we breathe healthy, clean air to refresh our weary soul?

Maybe, just maybe, it's the heart that keeps the doors open. Just enough. 

We breathe. And we sigh.

It's only our mind that thinks they're closed.

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Reviews

[Davidgeo]

Very introspective. Very thought provoking.

With some interesting psycho-philosophical pondering the opening is very strong.

It degenerates into something lessor after that though. Not for a lack of thought or coherence or anything like that... it's just, well, there isn't a lot of poetry in your poetry. Which isn't neccesarily a bad thing; more like a subjective preference thing.

[DianneR]

Yes, I do agree...I'm not sure I would even place this writing piece in a 'poetry'-related category; but rather, something I pondered. The concept just kind of occurred to me that we have so many symbolic doors opening/closing or something in between as we think, judge, observe or feel.

I really appreciate your honesty in your review. Thank you, D.

[Davidgeo]

I'd definitely keep calling it poetry related if I were you. Otherwise, that thing would just be another pretentious, poorly written prose piece expanded from an old Alexander Graham Bell quote.