Best Laid Plans
He hears the words a thousand ways
And each a cut so deep
The blood of martyrs rinsed his soul
Yet he sits
In Silence
As words fall over him like rain
He ponders upon the words once heard
They tore at all he knew
Not one to shoot the messenger
So he froze
A sense of shock
His recollection now from borrowed source
It's in you
But it shouldn't be
We can't say how it came about
But we'll take it
From you
Until it returns
Another day
That's what he hears them say
So he sits
In silence
Frozen
Perhaps in shock
He remembers a statement
About best laid plans
And now he waits
For it's return
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Links to earlier works
- Fiction
My Fiction Writing Collection
Writing Myself Out of Existence
When the Levee Breaks
Reality Fading
Lessons Learned From a Dying Man - includes audio version.
Book Reviews
The Switch - Elmore Leonard
A Glitch In The World - Alex Drozd
All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Where Epics Fail - Yahia Lababidi
Hellbent - Gregg Hurwitz
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Soon - Lois Murphy
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Crooked God Machine - Autumn Christian
Audio Poetry
The Dance of Destiny and Fate
One Day, Just Not Today