Oh No
By: Robert Creeley
If you wander far enough
you will come to it
and when you get there
they will give you a place to sit
for yourself only, in a nice chair,
and all your friends will be there
with smiles on their faces
and they will like wise all have places.
Oh No by Robert Creeley is a really short poem but says so much in so few words. The first stanza is life's journey in a nut shell! We wander through life and once we've made it so far we are there. We are now old and frail where we will finally need a place to sit in which we will be given. Everyone gets their own and isn't a crappy chair, but a good one. All of our friends will be there as well because our lives will all be around an end, but with smiles as we have lived out our lives and now it is time to be together again, to sit and rest. They will have places along side of us as we are now taking the end of our journey together. Another thought on this could be a nursing home. After life's journey we take our last sitting together in a home for the elderly. I really enjoy how the author can say so much in such a small poem. Length doesn't always determine the importance or strength that words have to offer.
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