The Egg Surrenders to the Inevitable

author’s note:

We seem to be metaphor-making machines.


THE EGG SURRENDERS TO THE INEVITABLE

All that day I wondered
if we would ever change

so that night my deeper mind
gave me this dream:

I’m egg
trapped inside its shell

so I want to break out
but no—I feel safe
but no, I don’t really feel safe
because this shell could break.
I should leave such a fragile place
but no—
this space has kept me safe.

So I try to go but I try to stay

and remain locked in place
until I finally realize the obvious:
I can not live, unless
I accept this death.
So I surrender to the inevitable:

I let my shell break open.

But then
I can no longer live
as an egg

so I live as an open well—
humbly offering water to all
because I know
I don’t actually own that water.

The dream told me:
one morning we will finally
surrender to the inevitable
and then yell:
to hell with this shell!

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