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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Root Of Confusion<\/strong><\/p>\n Driving down this country road,<\/p>\n feeling like I\u2019m growing old.<\/p>\n Windshield wipers are keeping time,<\/p>\n as\u00a0I mull things over in my mind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The day is dark, dreary, and wet.<\/p>\n How much darker can my mind get?<\/p>\n I try to find some sort of pattern.<\/p>\n Thoughts are circling like the Rings Of Saturn<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is not a mystery<\/p>\n as many say it seems to be.<\/p>\n Round and round<\/p>\n goes the secrecy.<\/p>\n No way ever to<\/p>\n set yourself free.<\/p>\n Sometimes the meaning<\/p>\n starts to become clear.<\/p>\n Then it blurs<\/p>\n and leaves me in fear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On I drive, on this miserable day.<\/p>\n My destination, I cannot say.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if I can go on?<\/p>\n Yet,\u00a0 I must.\u00a0 It’s not a con.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Someone like you can understand.<\/p>\n Why it is so hard for a man.<\/p>\n My thoughts keep spinning with no focus.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t even know what the joke is?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is not a mystery<\/p>\n as many say it seems to be.<\/p>\n Round and round<\/p>\n goes the secrecy.<\/p>\n No way ever to<\/p>\n set yourself free.<\/p>\n Sometimes the meaning<\/p>\n starts to become clear.<\/p>\n Then it blurs<\/p>\n and leaves me in fear.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ve gone so far I\u2019ve lost my way.<\/p>\n I am not even sure of the day.<\/p>\n It is not a mid life crisis.<\/p>\n I\u2019m still young. It\u2019s what the price is.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I could be lost for eternity.<\/p>\n Till someone makes it clear to me.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the way it is when in this trap.<\/p>\n If I only knew where I was at?—————–R. W. Johnson—–(2014)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Root Of Confusion Driving down this country road, feeling like I\u2019m growing old. Windshield wipers are keeping time, as\u00a0I mull things over in my mind. The day is dark, dreary, and wet. How much darker can my mind get? I try to find some sort of pattern. Thoughts are circling like … Continue reading The Root Of Confusion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-random","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}