Image: Cetrobo
As if the flat was hard enough
The suggestion of mountain ranges
Wading upstream amidst natures predators
Was too much to contemplate.
He was a plain man
Beset with faults and flaws
With social skills that struggled to be seen
He avoided the public eye
Kept to himself
Let words escape, revealing snippets
Not too much should people talk
Hidden away under the world
Safe from scrutiny
Harbouring the pain of growing up
A freak unable to connect
Ignored and the butt of many a joke.
The words of the boys haunted him
“The Creep from the Deep’.
The road ahead was flat,
He liked it that way
No one noticed, or cared,
So, he plodded along.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/photo-challenge-168/
Morpethroad 
And do you know what? He got there!
Well its more he’s getting there..I hope….I on facebook today this statement which I thought said a lot about most of us…
“I started out with nothing and still have most of it left””
That is Deeper than it sounds!
It is isn’t it..
🤔
my comment disappeared – wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
right then, in summary – Creep from the Deep was a real arc in this piece, certainly caught my attention ….
as for the rest, it was semi-zen but not really, so yeah, your FB find? it could be said of most, depending on point of view, of course, but it depends on how we understand and define “nothing” ….
Yes that’s a really good point Pat….especially when you are aware that nothing can in fact be something…
oh, and just because I might have not been clear, when I said the rest was semi-zen, I was referring to my lost comment …. just caught this now, in case there was any confusion, not your piece, but my lost comment …. I swear if my head wasn’t screwed on to my body, it would be sitting on a garbage heap somewhere, baking itself into dust!