Poetry

Silly singing songs

Chair dancing

Playing the board game

Laughing because it feels good

Just like the song says it would

Be of good cheer

Or cry to your hearts content

Both reasonable options

And both desperately needed

Simultaneously induced

Means laughter between each sob

Unexpected.

Like always.

Prevention options?

Could they have been prevented?

The horror of it happening

feels like it is for someone else.

It comes home personally

when it affects

your plans for the weekend.

Selfish.

Yes.

Human reaction?

Yes.

Survivable?

Yes.

Funny?

No.

A bolt of electrical energy

Satisfying to watch

Hits a target unexpectedly

Who’s the victim here?

Given the nature of the strike

We all find ways

To bring back the deadly vision

Beauty in the terrifying spectacle

Tough love softened?

Or a stricter style of guidance?

Isn’t love enough

to justify the actions of a person

who only wants to help you?

Soft

Hard

Tough

Weak

Cloying

Restricting

Freeing

Joyful

Beautiful

What type of love refuses

to listen to the object of the intent?

For good

or ill

shouldn’t love

simply be love?

Soggy

Edible

Still tasty

Not as appealing

Frugal

In other words

Delicious

By any other name

Missing.

Last seen.

Last weekend.

Offering a reward?

Or merely survive

In this bachelors haven?

Best to overcome

And go in a search.

Whether it’s to find the honey

Or worse

Take the coffee black.

Progress seems to have been made.

Work has accomplished the seemingly imposible.

Then the letter.

Arrival non conspicuous.

Devastating contents.

Stress ramps up once again.

How will things get better

if you can only react

and not be allowed

to be proactive?

Thinking ahead requires time to think.

Stress undercuts that.

Not my day.

It is full of shame and despair.

Guilt over mismanagement

and a willingness to procrastinate.

It is my day.

It is a day full of possibilities

and a source of fun.

A chance to be willing to embrace

what ever is given to me.

A day for contemplation.

A fresh start to look at new things

and see where things went wrong.

Just a day.

Normal like any other day.

Good or bad

It is just a day.

Cat prances by

The kingfisher cries

Huskies howl heavenward

Yellowjackets hum a chord

Plants just sit there

and soak up the sun