Foolishness is a disease that comes on very slowly. And without preamble or prejudice.

No cure, Only symptomatic mitigation And the collateral tears.

Affliction of the young, The old The wise The bold, especially.

It cares little for your Hopes and dreams Except to bend Them to it’s ineffable will.

Like a sucker punch, foolishness is impossible to expect. The best you can hope for Is to counter the blow with routine.

Of goodness, Of seriousness Of generosity Of will.

What began as parental illness, Propagated to pandemic And today… Endemic.

Incurable. But it shall Not always be so.

One day, foolishness, which is ever tied up in the heart of a boy, will die with youth.

We will laugh At the foolishness Of Children When we can truly Say we are men.

When we are wise And can see the end from The beginning And so we STOP.

And marvel At how Knowledge applied, Really is wise.

#poetry

What is it you would like to say?
 Say it, for this is the world’s end.

A poem about death shortly after the anniversary of losing my wife's closest friend.

How could I worry about me?

I am now struck— Struck by how much I loved her, And how through all the years, I never once said, I love you.

I laughed with her. Supped with her. Took her cookies. Listened to her. Suffered next to her. Dreamed of her.

But—like my flesh and blood, I took her for granted— This woman who gathered me in, Through three decades and five, Sometimes as son, Sometimes as brother, Sometimes as a wise one.

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Now, it's 3:30 a.m., Adrift in the emptiness of a parking lot 
I hear the distant whistle Of a night train crying Through the wind.


The clack-clack-clack Rolling in the dark Carries me back Where these sounds once Wove themselves into her walls.

Vibrations signaling I was trapped— Not in fear, But in refuge Walled from a worried world For just a few minutes more.

How I wish now— I wish I could be trapped one more time, Just for those moments. Not long— Just long enough to say:

Thank you.

I love you.

#poetry #death #confession #storytelling #write #100daystooffload

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