When You’ve Been Spared

When You’ve Been Spared

Providence

On a quiet amble

along a narrow road

outside Duluth

I walked further

than I planned

at dusk.

Now it was dark

among the tall trees

and I’d come too far.

I turned to go back

and just then

saw a faint glow

in the distance.

I watched it

come closer,

lumbering,

making itself clear

as the dome light

of a slow moving taxi.

To Ponder

            1.   Sometimes innocence can later be declared as

                  carelessness.

            2.   Even the so-called innocent one can come to this 

                  conclusion on his own.

            3.   Fate-tempters—not at all innocent—choose to invite a

                  measure of fear into their lives. Like the moth, they fly

                  close to the flame.

            4.   What do you make of a full-of-fear incident, not

                  expected, that comes to an end in complete safety?

            5.   One is plain fully-felt gratefulness for what didn’t occur

                  that might have.

            6.   Two is comprehending how fragile life can be and how

                  care is the better option than innocence.

            7.   Three is sharing your experience with others, as

                  appropriate. They can learn from it, one way or another.

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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