Escapade

by T.P. Wilkinson / July 17th, 2016

Escape
Is a key
Reverse
Release
And narrow

From
A programme
A prison
A careless decision
Or fear and derision

Not
A backspace
Or a rat race
Nor
A lost chase
Or a lost face

Escape
Calls for daring
Escape
Comes from a thirst
wisdom and wit,
consciousness
filling the mind’s
casks
until their walls burst.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, July 17th, 2016 at 8:04am and is filed under Poetry.