Sunday, April 2, 2023

The Still Surface Thrives ~ Sunday, April 2, 2023

After a long day

of running twenty-one miles

I want to relax

I feed my two cats

their mushy food late at night

when my day is done

Then I make dinner

scrambled eggs, beans, sauerkraut

and a tin of fish

But I'm so tired

I only eat half a bowl

and save the rest, facts

I play some music

Philip Glass on piano

and think what I'd write

A letter to thank

the composer for his work

I love it a ton

There was once a time

I thought I could write music

a pipe dream, my wish

To be somebody

others listen to for fun

to enjoy their lives

But I write poems

nobody reads, it's okay

listen to The Light

Twenty-four minutes

of symphonic bliss, I die

every time I hear

This composition

a work of art is a craft

sculpted perfection

This world, I suffer

from depression, affective

dysphoria, year

After year, decades

of keeping my head above

water, inflection

Of the waves, the sea

the ocean, the salt water

the still surface thrives

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