And Then I Look Away (edit 1)

[Survivor]

maybe I finally have gotten around to posting something...

And Then I Look Away

I have become caught in traffic.
It's seven-thirty and I know
a half-hour later it would not be
so much so. But I keep staring,
forcing the car between the lines,
because life demands the paycheck
and the paycheck demands the hour
and the hour demands that I sit,
a face trapped behind the windshield,
caught among all these wheels and all
these shields. And sometimes I catch a set
of eyes sealed in their own lined world.
Sometimes they also catch mine.

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nice piece of poetry with many symbols expressing life. Symbolic poems is one of my favorite type to read. A poem which I interpret as a sign of struggle. Well told poem with strong meaning, symbols, and metaphors.