a poem is a sermon
When you begin to want to make a change,
you may have no idea how to start.
In fact, your mind may feel lost and confused;
your friends may think you weird or just deranged,
and you’ll keep your own counsel, if you’re smart,
to keep yourself from being too abused.
What is the use of dreams devoid of action, that linger on as hopes before they die; and while they last, convince us if we try that in the end we will find satisfaction. Such wistful shadows taunt us to distraction; lost in the mist, we separate in factions and dissipate and fade out, by […]
Rest your head and close your eyes, listen to this lullaby: let the sights and sounds of day gently dull and fade away; let the chirping crickets’ song slowly make the minutes long; let the fresh and cool bedsheets softly lower your heartbeat; let the shadows of the night send you off to sleep’s delight. […]
Nothing comes from nothing, yet something always does; you can smell the future coming long before the buzz, sitting on the front porch listening to the rain as the winter fades away and summer comes again. I can’t speak for Michigan but I can see Ohio rusted into sentimental dreams. Knowing there is nothing left […]
It’s not so much the time I think I’ve wasted or even those things I have left undone (those grand majestic dreams you hold onto, beyond their useful life, as could have beens), the words said I would rather had been left unsaid and their resulting acts, not wild nor brave, but thoughtless, more or […]
If thinking a thing made it so, what’s real or not don’t matter much; and what you get solely depends on what you tend to dwell upon. Why think in black and white, and small? In case a jealous god might find your dream, see red and underneath a too cruel wheel crush and throw […]
The end is near, and what is worse, it looks so very much the same as the beginning. How perverse! We’d best start handing out the blame before the opportunity is past, and we are forced to flee elected our own scapegoats. How I wish we’d planned much better, now. We’re stuck with everything, it […]