Mistaken Steps

Kurt Philip Behm

Running off

to somewhere else

the past tracks

close behind

 

Its shadow looming

steps in place

while preying

to remind

 

That time pursues

the fleetest man

with doggedness

and ire

 

To kindle each

mistaken step

into a raging

— fire

 

(The New Room: December, 2025)

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Online Online)
  • Published: December 8th, 2025 08:20
  • Category: Unclassified
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  • 2781

    Where's the brigade?

  • sorenbarrett

    Must be an inferno behind me Kurt. Backtracking would only burn one's feet. I'm waiting for the shadow to catch fire.

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    That sounds like the topic for a poem 🙂



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