Two Steps Forward (Recovered from January 17, 2018)

Two steps forward…
One step back…
Three steps forward…
Two steps back…
There is a tendency towards
the good
lately,
but…
setbacks within,
built in to the script,
make it a drunken
dance towards
a goal…
eventually…
You’re generally
not allowed to be too
anything
for too long…
Feeling too good?
Gut check…
Feeling too bad?
Windfall…
Feeling too secure?
Minor disaster…
Sometimes when falling
there are safety nets…
And sometimes there are
no nets at all…
Nothing but bone jarring concrete
to wake you up…
Or to put you to sleep…
We’re supposed to be 
that boxer
who keeps getting up
no matter how badly he gets beaten…
But it gets dizzying
spiraling in circles…
Tracking on a sine wave…
Regular and repeating…
For the most part…
From the dark to the light
to the gray
and then back again
in random order…
Red light…
Yellow light…
Green light…
“You can’t always get what you want,”
says The Stones.
“But if you try, sometimes,
you get what you need.”
Often exactly when you need it…
Conspicuously synchronistic…
Suspiciously serendipitous…
Just as often,
however,
there is the exact opposite…
Sometimes you just get screwed…
No rhyme or reason…
Sometimes you’re the lizard…
Sometimes you’re the stick…
But it’s still just
lizard-on-a-stick…
Life on the verge
of major positive change…
But always with 
some lesson 
in the cultivation of patience…
I want it all
and I want it now,
but life steps in 
and has other plans…
That’s the way it goes…
Try to roll with it…
Keep your head…
Land on your feet…
And any other collection of 
inspirational literary cliches…
Hope is like a buoy
rising and falling with the tide and the waves…
Sometimes correcting
as the stock market often does…
Can’t be too happy…
Not for too long…
That’s not often allowed
free of some kind
of complication…
There’s inevitably
a fly in the ointment…
It is sticky stuff,
after all,
creating this reality
from raw chaos…
Choosing to be a part of this place,
if we have a choice,
sometimes seems like madness....
Crawling to this place
from the cool comfort
of chaos...
  
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