doors.

designed to allow exit –

designed to prohibit intrusion.

 

for most of us,

addition of lock – no longer optional.

 

predetermined –

decision made based on past experience –

unlawful entry.

 

we imagine days before the knowing.

when convenience of passage was not only allowed,

but welcome.

seasons passed so quickly.

innocence –

unwilling martyr to the conquest of aging.

 

what do we do,

now that the key has been found?

safe we were –

indisposed,

ignorant to the obligation of trust.

 

what will become of our premise –

our assumption of character?

who will we be when separated from the mask of suppose?

 

pray?

for?

redemption from the sin of mistrust?

un-faith in the promise of absolution?

 

i suppose there is honor in forgiveness –

but nowhere in the constitution of salvation is there clause for arbitration.

and you there –

standing silent in the hallway of indifference –

key in hand,

what will you do?

 

you arrogantly presume control over my situation –

never realizing,

the door was unlocked all along.