Go away Irene (Shadorma)

Irene breaks

Hurricane rains strewn
Millions flee

Disaster
A boy dies from fallen tree
Please change the channel

A Would be Napper (Shadorma)

Two contrived
a would be napper
from his sleep

Dad versus
a toddler and babe tag-team
A conspiracy

The equilibrium of life

The equilibrium of life is the ever constant dynamic flow of internal and external changes

that spontaneously takes place within us and the environment
physically, psychologically, and spiritually in all things.

Whenever this flow is interrupted or stops
there is not only imbalance but an unrest in
our being that leads to a deep
severe unhappiness and a
bitter dysfunctional state.

Flight

Escape, elude

that’s my attitude
in conflict or feud
or a hairy dude

retreat, withdrawn
like a scrawny fawn
be strong, be bold
tis’ what I’ve been told

but sometimes
you just can’t stand
on your own two feet
bitin’ your lip
sufferin’ defeat

or maybe not defeat
but you use your feet
not to fight but flight
and fly I say

out of mind, out of sight
and out of harms way
kinda safe and sound
half way outta town

keep going , escape
like a Ford I say
hit the gas, don’t look
and don’t delay

click the turbo
set the jet boosters
zippin’ past farms,
horses, roosters

Yes sometimes escape
is the only way

Plus & Minus

There is plus and and there is Minus

Like a blanket and that boy Linus

Cozy Carl and Anxious Amy
Put em’ together?
Not if you paid me

Simple Simon and Complex Carrie
You stay here
I’ll take the ferry

Conservative Cathy and Sammy Spender
This is a definite fender bender

Pessimistic Penny and Carefree Chris
How long do you think
They’ll put up with this?

Messy Mike and Tidy Terri
who would’ve thunk
these two would marry?

For every rose there comes a thorn
For every plus and minus born

Like with the rain there is the cloud
Beside the humble there is the proud

Like Happy Hank and Sad Sally
With every peak there comes a valley

For every right there is a wrong
For every tear there is a song

And a wrong for every right
Like a day for every night

There is simply balance in everything
and in everything there is balance

There is a plus for every minus
and a minus for every plus

Thus they cancel each other out

And then,
there is nothing

Change of Hearts

He said I do
she said likewise
two hearts have been joined
and become one
in holy matrimony
with strong
vibrant bridal love
where there is
fullness of joy
peace and security
all the days
enduring years on end
until the love had faded
like a flower
that did once bud, bloom
wilted away
and lost its beauty
only to be detested
and thrown away
as worthless, rubbish
to be counted as dung

you have wasted my heart
you have played my heart strings
and left me in silence

and yet our song is not heard
but only the discord
of a broken heart
that once was

the heart that we had together
torn like a garment
and ripped asunder
into two again
a fragment of the beauty
once beheld

the one have become two again
broken fragments of the whole
exhibiting hearts that will
need a careful mend

The Human Heart

What rides like a roller coaster
turns on a dime
ascends like rocket
crashes like an avalanche
sticks like fly paper
and varies with the weather?

Only the human heart.