PayingUp

Sometimes you just don’t

Can’t won’t or will

Sometimes the desire is

Gone keeping you still

And quiet faraway from

Writing like a pill

Whether swallowed or penned

Simply paying the bill

For things already written

I2Wish

One day I hope

That someone will read

These words and wish

That they’d been written

And read to him

I do get tired

Talking to the flowers

That sprouted from seeds

That I had planted

Just once I wish

That a flower would

Talk to me knowing

That it seeing me

Is what makes me

Into a beautiful poem

24

Sleep I do

Sleep I must

Dreams they woo

Dreams they dust

Wake I too

Wake I trust

Day we shoo

Day we bust

Night it soothes

Night it shush’s

Politics

There is a game

One in which there

Is never a winner

Or even a loser

Just carnage abysmal carnage

And like most carnage

It gets burned buried

And forgotten to make

Room for more games

And more carnage yet

It’s a game played

Every four years and

Nothing ever changes except

The depth of dead

Will we ever learn

This needs to change

America

It’s with a heavy

Heart that I admit

That I am scared

Breakups are never easy

Yet here we are

Once had now gone

I will miss you

And what you promised

I did love you

But then you cheated

With the one that

You promised to avoid

You promised me that

Never shall we mingle

And yet you did

I should’ve expected it

Seduction is always sweet

Until the apple bitters

And it always does