And then it happens
poof not like lightning
or even like thunder
more like summer’s invisible
spiders webs hanging quietly
there in front of
you walking thoroughly unaware
until you get tangled
or like a feather
or like a leaf
floating down from nowhere
and then suddenly being
somewhere delicately upon you
This thing that happens
just like that always
like that and never
ever any other way
is the one thing
that you were always
certain wouldn’t ever happen
and yet just did
Category: Creativity
Hindsight
The world has lost
its innocence having once
been there unaware there
Funny how that is
things there are only
ever noticed once they’re
gone but never seen
once they are there
It’s almost like life
is only recognizable in
the rear view mirrors
and in our hindsight
long past due and
much too late to
do anything to keep
and now must lose
ThisMorning
The buildings of downtown
stand like guards in
full coronation regalia patient
immovable and at attention
Fog hangs about their
shoulders like dusty applets
the light from windows
shining like hundreds of
tiny polished brass buttons
all huddled together leaning
one against the other
like drunken sailor revelers
in port on leave
waiting for the military
police to sweep them
up like boozy rubbish
and pour them back
aboard their heaving ships
Sinking
I have simply not
not been this and
not been that but
one of the many
things that I’m not
is inspired my life
has taken on water
no longer buoyant now
only half of what
it was when I
first set sail having
given way to the
very thing that I
thought was my ally
Daddyisms
Here’s the thing: Life never gets easier; you just get better at it: Problems never get smaller; you learn to be bigger: Love and hate are synonymous; you can’t have one without having had the other at some point.
