On a vacation
Exploring and walking is wonderful.
Finding new things,
Places to eat at
Or just merely watching people pass by.
Until you look in the mirror
And see the red skin on your neck.
You take off your shoes
And put on bandages over the blisters
Caused from walking in old shoes.
Still, a vacation is a vacation.
Enjoy it while you can.
The story is unknown.
Thrown across like an afterthought.
What do the maids think
When they find the hotel guests
Leaving such surprises?
As opposed to other chore days
Begins and ends
with clothing in piles.
Ones that were sorted
are now folded.
Put them away?
That’s tomorrows chore.
They expect you to do
this task first.
Then when that is finished
you need to give them treats.
Or else they will sit in front of you
meowing, asking why they do not get them?
If you are going out the door
apologizing doesn’t help.
Though cuddles when you return home
still happens.
It is the right of every cat to expect certain things
at certain times of the day.
So don’t mess up their routine
because they will show their displeasure in unique ways.
Such as smelly “gifts” in shoes, hiding a sock
or simply making a mess of your counters (and therefore floors).
In the hot summer weather
when every other body part
is overheated
The feet are freezing.
Probably because
they are on the cold basement floor.
Quietly getting dressed.
Watching him breathe.
Hoping to let him rest.
While you go about your business for the morning.
The morning sings with the birds
As the flowers wake up.
Coffee in hand
I regret not using the bug spray.
Freedom is a concept.
A choice word
that allows us contentment.
Laws are made that restrict freedom.
Yet we live in a society
that touts freedom as the goal of living.
So if you buy one and get a second for free
you really only bought two at half price.
Deadly
Accurate
Truth
Evader.
Lies are told and yet we believe them.
And no
the truth isn’t always a lie
from your perspective.
Sometimes it is your perspective
that is wrong.
Driving along the highway.
The turn left takes you straight into the path
of the Semi driving on the other side.
The baby brother is in the backseat.
It is funny how the memory of my best friends loss
while we were children
Brings such dark thoughts out.
I wonder if her mother had the sun in her eyes
or if she had made a different, deliberate decision?
