crossing lines~

"... if you cross a line and nothing happens, 
the line loses meaning....
You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, 
crossing it every time....
You'd be surprised at how easy it is ....
To lose yourself--to get lost.
Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised.
Maybe some of you already know.

To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry."
— Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall) 

there are lots of things...
I have learned along the way..
I had it written down differently..
the way the lines should cross...
trying to replicate some old hand smocking I had once done...
I kept crossing lines...
farther and farther I went...
but they kept losing meaning..

so..rather than giving up..
and feeling I had lost my way...
I decided to look at it..
from a different perspective..
cross the lines...
and reconnect...

and I found..
that this way...
not crossing so many lines..
and drawing them in..gave a form..
and the form...
had meaning...
I liked this shape...
that was what I had learned...
but you probably are not surprised~

and now it seems...
yet another pattern must be written..
but you knew this {smiles}