Alone on the stage,

for the first time,

I can’t find the comforting faces,

I know that they are there,

They must be there….

 
How can this be happening?

This is my stage,

My territory,

My world…

 
This is where,

I do things my way,

And get away with it.

Somehow I always pull it off,

But tonight I just can’t.


Competent counsel,

My partner, that is.

I wonder if she feels alone?

She should.

 


No beginning,

No end.

The night just meanders along.
 

What did I miss…

T hat is the thought in my head.

Where is my incompetence?

Was I too confident,

Too assuming?

 
I don’t know…


I do know that I am very uncomfortable,

My legs hurt,

My mind hurts,

And my heart hurts…


All that said,

All that felt,

I will learn from this,

I will grow as I work through this,

Alone…

 

August 1999
First Community One Meeting in Idaho


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