THE BARRIER By ... Steve Lucky

             THE BARRIER
          By ... Steve Lucky

Doing the daily activities in my daily routine,
I encountered a barrier totally unfamiliar to me
And unlike any I had ever encountered before.
No known way of destroying it, going through it,
Penetrating it, or even going around it could be found.
Why did this barrier exist
And why was it so difficult to overcome?
When I cried to my friends for help
They said it was something
I had to handle on my own.
Once again I faced it
With no idea what to do.
Slowly stepping forward I felt
A tremendous weight pressing down against me.
Did I have the strength to continue
Or even stay where I was?
As the last of my energy was slipping away,
I looked up and saw a light
Passing through the barrier.
The barrier was desolving all around me.
Relaxed and burden free,
I walked to the other side
Singing a happy tune with every step.
Once safely on the other side
I turned and faced the barrier once more
Realizing the barrier and all it represented
Was still something I feared
And I wondered if I would
Ever have to face anything like it again.

Copyright 2000, 2001, Steve Lucky