A Man of the Tightrope

from the book "A Man of the Tightrope"

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On first sight,

I loved the painting.

A man on the tightrope with a balancing pole.

He was up there not to perform,

he seems was forced shakily standing there,

an albatross to learn how to balance his life.

 

I got the painting,

hung it in my family room.

I looked at him in the morning

and came home at night.

 

It reminded me, one misstep, life ruined.

 

I moved the painting to my office.

I liked to think he inspired me not to be

afraid of walking on the tightrope.

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Years, decades,

after stumbling and out of balance many times,

I began to wonder,

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