Paint your life
with broad strokes
and let definition
up to others
Always be grand
full of color
warm and welcoming
and let others
decide what you
are for always
you will either
be their everything
or just another
painting passed by
Category: Friendship
Shy
I’ve always done things
for others other things
other places other people
as though I was
a marionette attached to
someone else’s dreamy ideas
I found great joy
in giving that to
them but as they
grew I became smaller
as though I gave
others the sun while
I took the shade
And as they grew
I sat there waiting
But like greyhounds first
out the gate they
soon lost their place
and I having waited
watched and observed them
I understood their mistakes
and when my turn
didn’t make them myself
AlDente
I am a pot
of pasta having been
set to boil unattended
Many called me reckless
but I thought free
And now after three
years of lid on
simmering I am ready
to once again roll
to a boil heating
things up acting crazy
Dodos
Why is it that
men don’t want friends
men used to be
friendly but now more
than ever they’re suspicious
and selfish wanting only
what they want which
usually is sex now
I know females frustration
men want their pleasure
without the responsibility of
having the real intimacy
Men if the world
could figure out another
way to populate itself
without us we would’ve
gone out like dodos
LifeWine
Wisdom insight and knowledge
possess subtle differences hints
of various things that
sit on the minds
palette and quietly inform
and transform one’s experience
like the difference between varietals
of the same wine
Each note each hint
takes one deeper or
shallower sometimes diving headlong
and sometimes wading but
with each sip swirl
and swallow with each
lesson failure and experience
life is perpetually unlocked
and we move forward
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 