Street Wise

you say I - I say you
we say nothing no more,
days of giving
long since past
giving those days
we know won't last,
nothing gained - nothing lost
we served only one
but that be gone today as
it was the day before
and the one before that,
certain of nothing,
very little we are...
our lives cut short by
our refusal to participate,
and yours too
because you capitulate,
damned if we are or not
it matters no to us or you
or anyone for that matter,
we are who we are and
have been for decades. 

February 9, 2025

Word Flow

words flow like the rain
down a mountain side
or off a slanted roof,
they mix and mingle
form and reform...
in the mind
on the page
an explosion of letters
spell checked and verified,
words from a sunset or sunrise
winter scene with snow
summer scene with birds
falling leaves of fall
spring's mowing grass smell,
words taken from thoughts
from memories and dreams,
from the reality of living
and being open to all that
forms around us...  from the
tiniest kitten to the large cat
from the fire of a campsite
to the rapids of a river...
words flow like the rain
we catch them when we can
use umbrellas when we cannot,
the flow is constant, if we take
the time and know where to look.

February 13, 2025

Warriors

down through the heavens they come
these ancient gods we are told
bringing us enlightenment
raping our females along the way
half-gods were born too soon
replacing the weak males in time,
it was not a friendly time nor was
peaceful in the cities and towns,
transitions and transformations
ruled our lives, dictated our futures
changing our societies forever,
we were never free, never meant to be,
we were always someone's play toy
someone's experiment to make us
better and more resilient, more
durable in combat and more lethal
in winning all our battles - no longer
were we the beings first created
but a new species of warrior who 
questioned nothing, not even death.

February 12, 2025

Questions Determine

we are who we are now
previously not the same
ahead different as well
to be determined somewhat
we suppose right or wrong
not th4e same except
for here and now...
we have no crisis here
just misunderstanding
over whom we are and
who we will become
if anything at all...
 decisions made reflect
not the change or the
proximity of it all - 
as we are that which we
became wholeheartedly,
still not what was intended
or anticipated - the changing
of DNA and all - the genes
went to some but not all,
we were modified directly
or indirectly so, some say...
who are they to know?

February 12, 2025

Legend

drink the waters of the Nile
you will return one day,
the legend goes...
as does so many others,
inundated by them
we are these days...
no one knows for sure
they cannot say
are they true or no
we be wondering...
the water of the Nile
I have drunk once
in my youthful days
not many more years
older can I get,
have not yet returned
nor do I plan to with the
world like it is today...
so much for legends say.

February 11, 2025

Hate

 

billionaires barf out statements 

thought to be in everyday use,

in front of millions...  hoping

to change attitudes...

preconceived ideas...

and opinions...

how do billionaires see hate,

many of us wonder.

flying around in private jets

eating croissants in Paris

bagels in the Caribbean

or drinking expresso in Rome...

Hate is what we know...

what we learned from preachers,

manifested in the teachings

of those who came before.

Hate is not for sale or bargained with,

it is what we live with daily,

it's all we know to do with each other.

February 10, 2025

VALENTINES 2025

A gift of greeting this day represents
for old and young alike they say,
A sweetheart chosen by many
others just an infatuation perhaps...
Those of us who have lived a while
see not the gift or greeting or sweetheart
but the person with whom we have spent
over one third of our lives and with
whom we have loved and continue to love,
With whom we have disagreed and with
whom we have shared the best of life
and the negative side of life as well...
We see the partner with whom we have
built our life and future and with whom
we see at first light when we awake,
We see the person with whom we share
our soul, our hopes, fears and happiness,
valentines are perpetual for us or not at all...

February 14, 2025

Out the Window we Look

beyond the day, the hour, the minute
we live...  supposedly...
in silos of desires and wants,
fantasies of dreams and wishes
imagining what might be or not be,
we struggle with realities
wondering why we are less fortunate
basing perception of what we see,
what we think we know or that
which we have been told
by those we trust not to lie...
looking out the windows of our
lives...  we sit or stand...
as it makes little difference,
informed or not informed
as the case may be...
winter replaces sunshine and then
it is periodically reversed,
we know not how or why,
relishing in the change,
hoping for more of what we like
and less of what we do not,
knowing expectation fall short,
out the window we look
to see firsthand what will be.

February 8, 2025

Divided

right and wrong divides us
a line so thin, barely visible
good and evil is in there too
fighting for its place in the sun,
dogs chase cats and rabbits too
cats chase rodents and hoppers
we are alive because of our beliefs
yet we do not consider ourselves
lucky if we were to die...
morning after pills rock the future
impacting corners of the world,
we care less or not at all while
those who fight us have no opinion,
we are fans of neither, casting
doubts on those who are...
nothing in return is sought but
the pill is kept in our pockets.

February 7, 2015

Fulfilling Prophecy

warmth permeates the boundaries
of the mind
cold stimulates the actions
of the body
we are one without ourselves
two together
crisscrossing lives like city pigeons
defecating
measuring our existence through 
forsaken lenses
grasping at death as if it were 
highly overrated
moss lined memories give still births
to thoughts
creepy people enter our lives as if
collecting taxes
dormant children sit at monitors
wasting life
criminals beg for clemency with hands
in judge's pockets
we have created the society from which
try to grow
nurturing the future like pigs sucking
on boar teats.

February 6, 2025