What Crosses My Mind

  • I Turned Off The News

      Yesterday, I made a conscious decision to turn off the news. Having watched the now ‘idle’ banter of prognosticators and candidates for the last year, the outcome in hand, I wasn’t excited about hearing any theory, any ‘told you so’ antics, or any patronage from the winning side of an ugly defeat. I told…

  • Clowns Among Children

    We are a sad face To listen to our squeal We can never erase Such a psychotic wheel ~ They play their stupid games Each one cruel as another Doesn’t matter their aims Just a hypocritical bother. ~ I wonder what they imagine when fear is a constant knock Across the pond the whine of…

  • Heads Explode

    When the summer air dries the mind, while the human condition  becomes designed, to employ an ideal, to suggest we steal each other’s value for the benefit of our own each mannerism, gesture from where found unknown. We only benefit by the knowledge of truth as that reality slides we belong long in the tooth.…

  • Listening to the News

    I’m feeling agitation, listening to mouthpieces slam each other, slam the office, slam the American people, Ignorance, forces themselves to believe in rhetoric, ‘we will never be great again’ oh my, 6th grade Civics again. ~ ‘lead from behind’ Hah! – I won’t go there, but they might, probably do. ~ Remember when we were told…

  • Her Eyes

    She sits with cold reasoning trying to believe knowing everyone around her disagrees decides to illicit a remark cements her current posture. If I look across the room I can see she is different, her burqa wraps her fears inside eyes with tears imagine fear. Yet this is all we have, the only part of…

  • My Muslim Friends

    I’m crying tonight I don’t want to be a part of this the confusion is an ignorance I didn’t plan upon, I wish not to look in your eyes and feel your pain, I hope for love, that smile of beauty, the caress of humanity suggest we are a beautiful people together, not apart, not…

  • My World A Ruthless Shame

    I grew up with certain freedoms, Though I was never really told, I only understood a world of fiefdoms From books I read. I wasn’t bold. ~ My dreams were made with managed Challenge, the bounty being compassion Beyond a society of greed is the adage Spoke a loud in a personal fashion. ~ The…

  • The Candidate

    This is a demeanor moment, off the camera, a human being that eats turkey, on camera, the polish forgets the need for food. in my apparent life, what you see could possibly be me, yet, how impactful will the real side of me be, can you see, do you know exactly why we might imagine,…