I do enjoy dull
finding things to polish
and make new again
but polishing things is
different than polishing people
people simply don’t change
no matter how hard
one rubs or shines
they remain the same
I think now that
people once dull remain
dull having always been
that lackluster tired way
Category: Gay
WeAnimals
Bees sting
dogs bite
cats scratch
but lovers
and people
should not
and when
they do
like birds
I fly
high above
and away
Sting
And yesterday felt
like a rubber
band snapping back
and surprising me
leaving a sting
where hope should
have been found
things for me
went as planned
things with others
definitely did not
and I stood
there feeling like
a high school
freshman after gym
having just been
snapped with a
towel by the
seniors and wondering
why do they
have to do
this to me
Photograph
And so yesterday
I stumbled across
a recent photograph
on social media
of a home
that used to
be ours and
which now is
a house belonging
to him only
it looks familiar
that house though
now it's just
some random thing
lifeless standing there
no longer breathing
or pumping with
what once was
the very essence
of our life
funny how photographs
capture certain things
and miss many
others namely love
Adventure
A very dear friend
is starting a new
job today at the
young age of sixty
it just confirms that
life is an adventure
and that if anything
we are all but
children on the first
day of school whenever
we start something new
help me to wish
him luck on this
for he like all
of us at one
time or another have
been aboard our ship
embarking to somewhere unknown
while the rest wave
bon voyage from the
safety of the dock
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 