Oktober 2019 SonnetFest - 2

Second of the Oktober 2019 SonnetFest series.


what can be done or not done

Connect me to the boundaries my eyes
can see -- for hopes exceed capacities
which I possess to undermine the guise
of normalcy that means I cannot seize
what opportunities I could indeed
create. For I am quite creative -- just
as rivers carve deep canyons at a speed
that's imperceptible, I know I must
be patient with my time -- but I have not
the length I need to reach the frozen plain
before it melts. So if I am too hot
I am quite far away, yet if the pain
is cold, I am too close; I cannot change
trajectories, so I must thus be strange.