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Monday, 21 February 2022

Comfort Zone

Comfort Zone

She always said there was a simple choice

To be made each and every morning

When waking out of easy sleep

Her heavy dreams untroubled

By any prickles of anxiety

To lie in tangled bedclothes

Lazy with the feeling that all is well

Comfortable with easy thoughts

About the well-worn path of the day ahead

Merely coasting

Through the normal routines

Along the daily groove of habit

And the same old, same old

 

But then she thought there was another way -

The stringent spirit of adventure

To step outside oneself

And take the plunge

Without anticipation

By diving into the hard, cold water

Of novelty, of originality

And face up to something scary

That uneasy feeling of standing near the edge

The fierce wind blasting from below

A rising vortex of danger

Nerves taut and jangling

With the sheer exhilaration

Of knowing that we’re really alive

 Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2022

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