Pause

Artwork: Medusa's Corner - Eugene Berman, 1943

i stop
in my
tracks
and say
a
prayer
that
i
may be
saved
from all
the
trouble,
the grief,
this tragedy
this life.

i stop
and
wonder
to
myself:
who am i,
what am i
doing here,
where do
i go
from here,
how
do i
get there,
when
does it
all
end?