SOUR GRAPES?

• Posted by Vincent LeVine on April 17, 2012 at 3:30pm
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                                                       Sour Grapes?

    there once lived some grapes who hadn't much ambition
    except to survive by the heat of a fire

    then came the day when one grape was sick of the fire
    made a decision, and left on a journey

                        all the other grapes remained by the fire
                        expecting he'd return once again for its heat

                       months had gone by and still they sat by the fire
                       thinking the journey had led to no source...

                      ah, but then in walked a raisin with a voice so familiar

                      they knew that his journey had been successful at last

he sat by the fire and spoke of the sunlight
though no one's attention seemed eager enough

he wondered if they wouldn't rather hear stories of terror
and how he returned to sit by the fire?

he passed out his gifts he got in the sunlight
and for a while they seemed to enjoy their companion...

                    but when the raisin stood up to leave for the sunlight
                    not one grape moved from the fire to wish him farewell

          and so he left for the last time, to find a home in the sunlight                               to live amongst raisins rather than the grapes 

he thought he knew best.

VINCENT LEVINE is a free-lance writer and can be reached at: vincent.levine@rocketmail.com