Children

I will never be

Famous I don’t want

To be my words

Are my children let

Them take the place

Of me wherever they

Are found to be

UsTime

And so we talked

And so we laughed

You there as Pikachu

And me as Goofy

But while we pretended

There was something real

Something many people overlook

It’s called play time

Pretend time silly time

And in that time

It’s simply us time

Pirate

Oh Ho Ho

So you thought

That I’d forgotten

I’d forgotten you

Oh Ho no

No I hadn’t

I simply waited

For the tide

To come in

And take me

Out to see

With you sea

ThatGnat

And then there’s that

One that one gnat

Buzzing around in darkness

Deemed to but harass

Keeping me awake swatting

Keeping me up swearing

Switching on the light

Showing him my might

To end this plight

And settle into night

Until that is you

Discover there’s actually two

SpitSplashSpit

Like a nervous stutterer

Standing in front of

A heckling crowd I

Turn on the spigot

Only to hear spit

Splash spit and stop

And amidst my chagrin

Walk off the stage

Words written but never

Said like a forlorn

Lover unable to post

The sonnets he’d written