PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

It seems like only yesterday

I was young and so very bright

in school.



Always the apt pupil with so

much promise it made teachers

smile with pride.



As I grew up and began to become

the man that I am now, I saw that

life isn't so simple.



A quick glimpse of the past

brought me into understanding

new and clear.



There are things out there

in the world that conspire

to hold us hostage.



For example, temptation follows

me like a stray dog seeking

trash cans on a lonely road.



Or, confusion often nips at my

heels like an Aligator rushing

ashore to snatch a drinking bird.



Then there's Love.  



My salvation and my torture. It

gives life to my words and kills

me a little more each day.



Pride makes me stand and be noticed

then shades my eyes to my own foolish

pretense. Who am I?



Deceit wishes me to give away

truth so that it can bend any

reality to my will. It, is a

harlot I dare never entertain.



Envy seeks my destruction through

the success of others and wishes

me to lament their gain. I will not

have what I do not want.



Greed propels me to acquisitions

endless pursuit.  Like a mad squirrel

laying up stores year round.  Until

his purpose finds his grave in the snow.



Then there's Love.



My muse and my destruction. It

brings inspiration endless and

lays waste to my soul when I would

just have peaceful existance.



I cannot make another see their destiny,

I can only point the way.



I can make choices for me that are truthful,

and bare my conscience in kind.



I cannot acquire the world in its entirety,

so I seek little of what I want and mostly

what I need.



You cannot hold on to Love, but it can hold

on to you.  Distribute it freely.



Remove the scales from your eyes and the

trappings of societal selfishness. Put

on your rose colored glasses and look at

the world simply.



Find the good in life and eschew the bad. Only

good can come from good.



This work doesn't know what it is nor what

it wants to be.  So read it over and over to

find the meaning for yourself.  Then...



Go in peace.  And live!