Lucky

All this time,

the life you were

supposed to live

has been rising around you

like the walls of a house

designed with warm

harmonious lines.

 

As if you had actually

planned it that way.

 

As if you had

stacked up bricks

at random,

and built by mistake

a lucky star.

“Lucky” by Kirsten Dierking from Northern Oracle. © Spout Press, 2007.