Poetry

Who is in charge?

If not you?

Is it me?

If not me,

then who?

Ok, what’s the plan o’ leader?

Sigh, if you are not in charge

then who is?

Forgiveness can be asked

and not received.

When expectations are disappointed

by the friend you trusted most.

How can you repay them?

Kindness is the only answer

for their days are not yours.

You do not know what they go through.

Trust is hard to gain

and so easy to lose.

But if you trust them

Trust them to love you!

When you have the chance to socialize

and instead stay home

to play and cuddle the cats.

Energy is saved and the introvert is recharged.

Just beware when the time passes

and no signs of life are seen by anyone at all.

A true hermit leaves no traces!

Storms come.

They wash away everything.

The good and the bad.

They leave behind chaos and debris.

Storms come

and then they go.

Sometimes they leave you cleaner.

Sometimes a bath is needed.

When the sky returns

you will always find your colour!

The children are out of school.

One even sang the school’s out song!

Now we sleep in every day.

Except when I have to go to work.

Then it is sleep deprivation days.

Even coffee doesn’t work.

But it’s Summer Vacation!

Get in the groove.

Laugh and relax.

Love the life you live

because happiness

begins with the things you love.

Your friends are your lifeline.

So go have fun!

What happens when you are alone?

Do your thoughts take over

or do you sing to break the silence?

Do you find yourself walking

and looking at everything around you?

Do you curl up into a ball

and wish someone you knew would hug you?

Do you cry and scream against the elements?

Do you find yourself sinking deeper into yourself?

Do you?

What do you do when you are truly alone?

Who’s the caller?

What number is the final one?

Is the yelling truly happiness

or merely a front for other drugs?

How many people does it take to draw them out?

The resistors or the Nazis?

I know my number will be called.

Not today.

Maybe not tomorrow.

But someday,

maybe someday soon.

Because they do not like the ones who struggle

and fight the oppression that they are enforcing.

Problem child!

Never going to make it in this world.

Yelling and screaming increase the outbursts.

So embrace the special treats they give.

They have strengths that no else knows.

They are unique in their purposes.

And love life in a way that is a joy to see.

If there are ten people at a table

and one more comes to sit down.

Would you welcome that person

if they have a differing point of view?

What if they were a Nazi?

Would you stand up and walk away

as all your friends talked and joked with them?

A killer doesn’t have to do the dirty work.

All they have to do is to ignore what is happening.

When your country has a leader that idolizes

the world’s dictators and their merciless rules

What will you do?

The choice is not hard.

Just beware the consequences.