Accessus

New Year Poetry Challenge, Prompt #6*
"Write a poem about ACCESSORIES. Kitchen accessories? Truck accessories? Bed and Bath accessories? Jewelry? Fishing? Holiday? Camping?

Accessories? Accessorizing? Accessorization? Accessorial? Access?"

Accessus

My arrival
   to complete understanding
   and acceptance
frightens me.
If this does arrive--
   this knowledge,
this truth,
what else will there be to
   search for?

We live our lives in want
   of excess and
access to an ultimate...
great.
That we will arrive at something
   so great that it will make
   every little thing that ever
stung
or roared
or throbbed
   worth something.
What is all of this if it isn't
   worth something?

Problem is we live our lives
   in excess, wanting to be worth
   the wrong kind of something.
What do you accessorize your life with
   to become accessible for?
Is tomorrow another step
   closer
   or further away?

This is my arrival
   taking
      another
         step.

12.14.14 es

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*Prompt courtesy of MoSt Poetry (Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center).