self-actualization at 23

walden freemanwalden freeman Posts: 511
edited December 2008 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
this morning,
i woke up unarmed and with a sore left elbow
i somehow rolled over
and it all finally made sense

i now know why i never listened
to my father except
when he asked me to give up
my dream of living in the midwest
with my brother

thus all that remains now
are questions about everyone
and everything else . . .

whether a dyslexic president
would declare nuclear war
is still unclear

nothing is as funny
as the terrible things people have done
since we're the first to complain when they're done
back to us

i woke up this morning
no longer feeling the need to perceive
what i missed while i was asleep
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