I'm just ticking

[Colm Roe]

My feet hold me,
connect me to a surface.

I walk like a clock.
Contact, escape, contact, escape;
in predetermined perambulation.

Occasional leaps,
fear or celebration.

Moments that suggest
I'm not just a clock
ticking
down.

[Dave]

Hi Colm
I like this. It has a pleasant flow and a gentle pace. 

[Dansinger]

Beautifully crafted.
Puts me in a pensive mood.

[Colm Roe]

Thanks guys

[Matty11]

Neatly done Colm. I buy into the positive thought.

cheers

Phil

[Colm Roe]

Cheers Phil...we have to mine deeper for positives...but they are there, waiting to be found

[Gyppo]

Moments that suggest
I'm not just a clock
ticking
down.

Very rarely are any of us just ticking down, even if it feels like that sometimes.

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I really liked the 'predetermined perambulation'.

Gyppo
 

[indar]

I walk like a clock.

"k" repetition picks up on the ticking of time---nice. Also nice reflection on those moments when rote motion is interrupted by some awareness--"being present to the moment" is the catch phrase I believe. And so life goes. Enjoyed.

[Colm Roe]

Gyppo, some people have been told they have wonky 'clocks' that could break before the guarantee runs out; I'd have thought they would get a sense of ticking down?
Linda, you often spot wonderful aspects I'm never sure I intended And educate me...'rote' is a word I wasn't familiar with. The essence of it I was though after a scuba diving incident I probably mentioned before. Before it happened I was never really aware of breathing, it happened without thinking about it; I'm too aware of it now, and feel for all those Covid patients who struggle to breathe.

[penguin]

I walk like a clock.
Contact, escape, contact, escape;
in predetermined perambulation.

That's the best part by far, I think. I can see the Contact, escape.... as a line for the times, but also quite OCD and anxiety ridden.