Disney Cicerone

She was just posing for a picture
aboard a tuna-sandwich pirate ship in a theme park and yet I see myself there
holding on loosely to the wheel
not really steering the ship
as the wind has blown me in a direction
I never intended to go.

I can adjust my sails
sure
I have in the past, over and over,
when the tide was not in my favor
but for now I just pause and survey

where do I make land
when the port has washed away?

I breathe
grip the wheel one last time
feel the grain of the wood under my tired hands
and finally start to accept
that the harder I hold on
fighting against the current
the more splinters I will get in my palms
so I let go
unfurl my sails
and let the wind move me where it will
because I can have an adventure anywhere I go
but not if I don't first surrender the one
that wasn't mine to keep.

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