Growing up is searching
for that pot of gold.!
The rainbow comes
And the search begins…
Innocence explores every hill- climbs every tree!
Just to chase a butterfly-
And see the bees…
Then in the flowers
You find life and you find honesty…
You grow and…
Up like the flowers…
To realize scientific truth!
Growling up is learning that rainbows
Come from water and not gold!
But happy hunting anyway!

After St. Patty’s Day ☘️ 

Thank you!
We finally broke!!
Half serious…
Almost a joke?
But it happened –
To stop it all…
It was needed!
While ignoring this crawl!
Because as long
There was a dollar or cent…
There was no way to stop
The nickels spent.
So at last . . .
Closing the cracked door-
Because nothing changed …
We were always poor!

I know nothing
Yet I know less today
There is no reason
To be gone this way.
My heart mourns
For you and more
Darker days
No doubt in store.
For anyone to HATE
Because you don’t agree
You are an evil
We should never see.
May you go soon to hell
For what you have done!
Charlie will add to Heaven
As we stand in love as one.

To Charlie and your wonderful family – I stand with many to say I’m so very sorry. 💙

Angrier by the minute.
At the end of every bump in the road is you. The excuse, the illness, that is you.
I hate you.
I hate the pain, turmoil, and everything that comes with you.
You are the thing that stole you.
And You need to go away.

What do you think gets better with age?

Ignorance gets better with age because people often mistake years lived with knowledge. Success is accepting knowing little to nothing.

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Life gets better

So long as you ignore ignorance

In others

And yourself…

Time is healing

And is hard

But not giving up

Is its own reward.

And when you have the chance

Take a stand!

For what is right!!

Not what others have planned!!!

So many moments
Daring to come back
Chirping crickets
And flittering bats…

And while life comes awake
I needed to see
The tears for the moment
Cried for me.

I was once less good
When my vision was clear
I did less listening
When I could perfectly hear…
Selfishness was abundant
Like years when you are five-
But it’s when I changed,
Emptiness would thrive…
I keep taking steps
On this wiser road-
And while I’ve learned much
The heavier is the load.
I can’t help but wonder
Why I continue to stay,
When the path is so lonely
Am I just in the way?
Why am I wasted
When I’m finally who I should be?
You became loneliness
And all I couldn’t hear or see.

The smallest chance
Within a glimpse…
Butterflies hidden
Causing his wince…
For a yes
In her eyes today
Until the mouth
Comes with nothing to say…
But for not
Regrets would cheer –
Intention so blissful,
Challenged by fear.
The prick of a rose
To wander his crazy-
With a moment to ask…
My Valentine; Maybe.

I don’t pretend to know everything
Or anything,,,,
But l am definitely in the middle of
Of nothing…
And something!

Innocence is so evolving
In everything
While disappearing
Into something …
Evil maybe
Or pure
In the disease
Or a cure….
Of knowledge
Or ignorance
It’s the past
And present tense….
But not the future
Generations bury deep
It’s just what is
No matter what we seek.

I am not
Anything
But the thing
In which to
Prevent!

Yes
I am
Just
Simply
The circumstance.

The vessels are smaller
But destination the same
Unless you are the player
Lost in the game…

It’s not seconds
Minutes or hours
We miss

But the dreams
Wonders and innocence
Amiss

Am I angry?
Sure!
Every thankless road
No matter the fork-
Or knife!

Still the house
Without a lake
A bounty
Of give
And take…

And life
Continues no matter
What misery
Or happiness
The loss!

The picture…
It’s bigger!
Then rulers and dollars…
Or boxes-
Of course.

So I bend
We pass
To a time
And direction
In a glass.

Hello 2024
Who are you?
Times of change
And leadership a few…
So many elections
In so little time;
Humble the world
And distilleries of wine…
With harbingers laid
And prophecies spent –
Learn from past
Not where it went…
For when there is progress
So too is a debt!
Artificial intelligence
Is a mind’s personal threat.
As we start a new year
Let’s learn from before
Thank God for your blessings…
Not the Devil at your door.

Happy New Year!

May your belly get full
And drama stay low,
Your heart be warm
With your body in toe.
May you give without return
And receive without debt,
And love those around you
No matter if you’ve met…
May you feel the spirit
With all our Lord brings.
And have a Merry Christmas!
In glory to our King.

I escaped!
I am done
In the name of freedom!
I have won!!

I skipped the table
At least for now
My apologies to the pig
And family cow. . .

Now onto Christmas
Or the silly season for short!
You lost in what matters
And my run is the retort!!

You have not
In that which you win..
It’s not in retail
But love in its end.

One by one
Small and large-
Dressed and different,
And almost in charge…

Doorbells will ring!
And lights will be on!
Until the sugar is out. . .
And again they’ll be gone…

Completely blind
To us out here…
Hiding in the décor
That fantasies our fears. . .

Until the day
There is nothing to fear-
Because they’ll be the ones
Hiding right here…

So, we relax!
With nothing to fight. . .
Because we found the joy
Being the fright to their night!

Mortal life
So basic
Robotic
And complacent

We pass
Life goes
So fast
We barely know…

The meaning
Or benefit;
Just the loss
Trivial regrets.

But the moment
Is as it was
Not logically
But just because.

Sometimes it’s a wasted life
Not because you were so great
But because others
Left you wasted

I woke up
To A purpose missing
No sign available
Or even whistling

And when asked
What it would take
It was an answer
I couldn’t make

For misery is company
And therefore I keep
It’s only the matter
That makes me weep.

Life
Becomes lifeless
Not because of a fall
Or autumn
But because
History
Purges the outcome…

Of you
Us and we-
Possibilities
One could be-

Because it was one
Just like before
History
Was just to ignore…

And when you cry
For mercy
Just know
Ignorance
Makes us unworthy.

I am not you
You are not me
That is ignorance
Not hate
Do you not see?

Those in “power”
Suit and ties
Plead with promises
Bull shit
And lies!

And in the chaos
Ignorance is lost
Chaos bleeds
They smile
Community becomes the cost!

I don’t know the meaning
Or what it saw
The start of the problem?
I don’t recall???

Just like we needed
The missing middle
While each new challenge
Plays the fiddle.

And so we dance
The night away
And just a before
One more Day.

She you’re a puppet
In a show
But the one
Who doesn’t know

So you play
Without beginning or end
Until the moment
We begin again.

When they are not listening

Trapped in circles
Bees to a flower
Build to the end
Without a cower…
Yet life
Always wins
Not without death
But with Again…
No cycle
Can be stalled by a life
But grows
Despite the strife.

You are the thing
Everything?
No!
An accomplishment!!
So fast-
Fleeting –
But loved !!
And I’m grateful…
Thank you!

Look – I’m not
You’re not
It’s not
Right
Or flight

Because
It is
I am
Like you
Fight!

Painfully aware
Every nip
All the bites
The good
And the wakes at night.

And still
Nature’s winds
Because it is
And was
The thing that gives.

Lost words
Lost thoughts
Losing time
Is what I’ve got.

Aimless wondering
Foolish speak
Costing us all
Making you weak.

To be born of the devil
Only to be born of yourself…
Hurts the story
Doesn’t it?

For all the darkness,
There is light!
And so I turn…
Away from the darkness-
That serves no purpose
Then to steal my life.

Seconds and minutes
Are never missed
It’s the hours
That make the list…

And sure there are days
And months too
The longer the length
They matter to you…

But when it’s over
The minutes are missed
And then the seconds
When we cease to exist.

So many times
Why not?
Why not me?
Now me?
Now me!
Why me?
Why now?
Punishment.
In wanting-
Not knowing.
Then getting-
No longer. . .
Wanting.

Just imagine
Before today
Knowing more
Than yesterday. . .
Now pretend
It’s the day before
Now you know
So much more!

Always in the face of madness
The insurrection
Of the minds
Only I’m different. . .
Than the other kind.
Bow to it now!
Or submit!
Just know-
What you see-
Is what you get!

I think change is scary …
So terrifying …
We push-
Until everything is gone!
Even if meant to be …
So much faster. . .

Suddenly only one thing is left.

Why?