Living

Work For Home A brighter smile they could not be When your team you daily have to see A deeper frown is forever drawn The moment you reach your home's lawn You couldn't catch more bees with that sweetness You have left it for family, oh this bitterness No problem you will do it, in every meeting you say As the dishes lay dirty waiting for you everyday With every congratulation and new responsibility You ignore more family time or bonding opportunity Oh c'mon, your badge of busyness is so heavy If not you, who will understand me, my dearie But soon your hip will be wider and pockets deeper Little ones joining the race and home growing quieter Suddenly your back will be weaker and your boss younger Old friends busier, your opinion less sought after So I say, decline that meeting the world will move on Surprise your family with some tickets, this very dawn This is my last warning for I am time, let be your tomb “He didn’t wo...

The One A whole lifetime spent searching for the one Led to paths both young and fun Alas! the mind told, let’s stop this now The hour has come, take on the plough For what you desire lives in books Meant for those with money or looks There is a journey you must take For all the others and your sake So, we walked the road all had taken Too coward, forbid the boat be shaken Feeling a mirth that often left quickly Leaving behind emptiness, oh so gently Oh! but fate is a cruel joker mon ami Never leaving you to truly heal or just be For it works the mind and ignores the soul Moving you on towards the next goal So we chose company as the measure Ignoring passion thinking it was a leisure The mind can be fooled but not the other For he went away, and faded into the cold winter Do come back my dear, I will try harder To love deeper and to laugh louder For hope is my friend and resolve my power I will love you myself, for you ar...

Simple Tales In the darkness of the night, she could hear the footsteps getting louder, there was no escape. Either say bye to her hero or, hear an earful from her mother for reading another dirty novel, late into the night. Mother is gone, Father is gone…yay we are all alone. So said Little Johnny, as he dragged out the neighbor’s dead cat to bury it quickly in the yard behind the kitchen.   Today is the day, today I am going to ask her…, there was a soft touch on his shoulder. He came back to reality. Smiled and moved in front and said, one Jumbo large pepperoni double cheese pizza, please.  Loud grunting and soft sighs, sweat all around… but there was no stopping. The passion build up, the music rose and suddenly she decided, that’s enough, got off the thread mill and said, I am stinking I need a shower. It’s going to be hard, there is still time… but as he drowned out the voices, he and his wife proudly looked at a picture of their 5 month old baby w...

Comfort of the Shadows As we walked home from school everyday All eyes were on you without any shame I was always let to be carefree... to run and play But we held onto you tighter to your dismay Little did you know what was lurking out there A lust for those born a certain way You always laughed it off in your ignorance Never to fathom the perverseness of perception Am I bad for envying the attention you got? Or am I bad for the relief I now sought? For while some eyes loved you and your heart Some minds crept over inch they saw While the world told me my reflection could be better I knew that what I was, always kept me safer You were told to laugh less and love carefully While I was cheered on for anyone who loved me dearly Dear sister, I still wish I was born in your likeness Not because thats what the world told me But because it would give me a chance to share in the darkness of your fairness