Paper Boats

Ordinary lives may be bent and folded

into shapes that become exotic origami,

each starting the same, with a plan

to become a fragrant flower, a fantastic beast

or intriguingly, a complex polygon.

Something remains however,

corners, sharp lines

no matter how shaped

or convoluted corners might be fashioned,

edges remain to anchor lives indelibly

to their former ordinariness,

sharp reminders of provenance,

voices, mannerisms, preferences,

cruel Judases sabotage our pretension

and we rapidly and surely come undone.

Published by grahamrsherwood