Unfamiliar Place

My whole life feels like

I am driving home

from the bank that is

just a mile from my home.

I go there all the time,

but I’m in a rush today so

I take a different route.

I’m now lost in some place,

a neighborhood I don’t know,

turning again and again

down roads never seen.

I told myself keep going

but now I’m stuck in

an unfamiliar place

and I have no idea how I got here

and I don’t have the energy

to try and get out again.