Happy New Year 2008

I hope 2008 exceeds your expectations, whatever they may be. Here is a poem I have been gnawing on all month. I think it is still a work in progress. Let me know what you think.

At 17

Fate fished for me in the sea of my childhood
Enticing me with the bait of independence
The tease of the tug impelled me
We tangoed and twisted into a tantalizing two-step

I succumbed
And was lured upward
Hooked on the fix of freedom
Until I breached the surface of adulthood

Breathlessly I flailed on fate’s dock
Pretending I belonged
Girlhood memories lay stale as shipwrecks
Beneath the surface