tired of being a bullet
I’m tired of being a bullet
I wanna be a butterfly.
I’m tired of trying to hit targets
I wanna float
meander
get there when I get there
stop for snacks
pull over and take a nap
absorb the local color
check out some flowers
see the sights.
I’m tired of aim and speed and straight lines
I wanna let the wind take me where it takes me
I wanna zig the zag
loop the loop
go backwards
act on a whim
get lost for a while
and wind up right where I need to be.
I’m tired of my blue steel skin and my gunpowder guts
tired of making holes in things
tired of the bang and the bam and then …
… nothing
I wanna be ancient and new
soft and light
fragile and strong
I wanna migrate
flutter in the breeze
join my tribe in the trees
I wanna go home.
The tired of being a bullet by Rick Belden, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
5 Comments Add your own
1. Neil&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 9:59 am
RICK I AM CURIOUS WHERE “HOME” IS. IS IT INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL ?? LET ME KNOW, NBW.
2. Rick&hellip | April 30th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Good question, Neil. I suppose it’s a little of both. I would say that what I had in mind, what I was feeling as I wrote that line, was the innate primal desire I suppose we all have to find the one place where we feel we truly “belong.”
In a psychospiritual sense, it’s the place from which we came and to which we long to return, the place that is the beginning and the end of each journey and each new cycle of life.
This piece was inspired by a little butterfly that fluttered across the interstate in front of me, on its way home, as I was zooming along in my metal shell on my way to another day at work.
3. Billy Jones&hellip | August 7th, 2011 at 9:13 am
Dude, I so identify with these words– take me home too.
4. Rick&hellip | August 28th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for reading and commenting, Billy, and for posting this poem on your blog at bloggingpoet. This is one that seems to speak for a lot of men out there.
5. Billy Jones&hellip | August 29th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
You’re welcome!
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