Mistake

Step outside to become self awar

Jump out of the pouch and start your mistakes. 

begin to hopscotch through; 

cartwheel over, stumble and graze.   

Slip and fall. 

There we stood in Clarks shoes,   

thumbs out in the busy lay-by 

conjecturing our free journey. 

The missed trains, buses, forgotten permission slips

and unsigned planners; 

All had AOL tabs attached with guilt, and   

the pure sense of underachievement. 

Weight of these mistakes was then carried 

on hips and thighs, mistaken kisses, judgmental 

divisions. 

But the only true mistake was initially accepting 

  the elder teaching; That one way is   

100% right and the other 99% wrong.