Perhaps, because I’m reading
Dust bunnies scamper across my floors
hiding beneath tables, gathering behind doors.
Perhaps, because I’m reading
Dishes stack into tall piles
and papers are exploding in spurts, beyond their files.
Perhaps, because I’m reading
I ignore the telephone,
but then, because I’m reading,
I’m content within my home.
I’m tired of this hacking cough
I wish these bugs would bugger off.
It’s hard to breathe; I’m prone to sneeze.
I wish this cough would stop!
Another year older
Another year wiser?
Another year employed.
Another year, analyser
Advise ‘er to be bolder.
Fifteen floors high
City lights in empty offices
Row after row of cubicles glow
under the auspices of what dissipation
do they toss dollars to the sky?
As snow creeps down the mountain
I thread through the maze and take to the skies.
I’m only leaving you for a few days,
but my sighs reflect how bereft it is
to be on my own, far from the one who
makes my heart beat.
Far from you.
If
I am not beautiful
to you,
I am not the one whom you should wake next to.
you should not woo;
Lest you regret your nuptial day
and prove untrue with
someone who
is
beautiful to
you.
There was something.
There was something in that bombastic laugh
that set a tingle up my spine,
something not quite right that climbed out from behind your eyes,
incised the benefit of the doubt.
There was something that kept me holding back
long before your strange attack.
Perhaps my intuition,
just knew it wasn’t safe to trust?
Free
might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
If where you are, you’re unhappy
what improvements do you foresee?
What will you change inside you?
Because here’s something true
unless something within is new
Your baggage’s just dragging after you!
You’re just bringing the same self you knew
The next adventure
awaits the sunrise.
Have faith it’ll be better
than you surmise.
When you choose what brings you joy
When you choose who gives you laughter
When you choose what makes you sing
When you choose who really matters
Then each moment and each thing
you do, makes happiness deploy.
Shawn L. Bird 