roadworks

Coming of age

It's the hole in the road that does it,
makes him test the ground at rest.
It seems firm but no longer can he know

the impact of his weight or the weight
of the sky. He clings to the fence that holds
him back from falling in; anything,

he thinks, to make this day something
more. A revelation like this, though,
takes time to settle. It will be years

before he remembers the fury of his own
ignorance; how he cast it off with the tethers
which no longer held sway tied to anything

upon the movable earth.