The Complicated World

The Complicated World

The world has become so complicated

People never talk to people

Electronics do the talking for us

Our phones take away private time

We are never truly alone

Cars tell us where to go

And what we should see on the way

Newspapers aren’t made of paper

Delivered through the air to our screens

The same with books

Turning the page just isn’t cool anymore

200+ channels to make everyone a star

Even if you do not have talent you will be an idol

Concerts and sports are televised

So you don’t have to leave the house

God forbid you gather together with other people

The kids are called to dinner by email

Bullying doesn’t take place on the schoolyard

Even surgeries are done by doctors a thousand miles away

Everything is done without seeing the other person

When will the day come when things will get worse

People will completely forget how to talk to each other

It will be hard to remember what another human being looks like

Babies will be conceived through a website

And even a child’s rattle with be computerized

Whatever happened to the good old days

When people got to meet other people

Eat together or share a beer together

Even fight together

Without something telling them what to do

Or talking for them

This world is confusing

I pray for a return to the good old days

When a calculator was the only computer I owned

And I looked people in the eyes and said hello

Remember The Rain

Remember The Rain

Think back

Remember when you were a child

When rain was a toy

To be played with

To be run in

Dance in

And laugh in

The days we were drenched

Warm water dripping in our hair

All over our faces

And the taste of nature’s purest water

Rolling down our tongues

We were so innocent

So amazed over the smallest things

When did that change

When did we stop playing with our toys

When did rain become something to avoid

Next time the clouds let loose

When rains fall to the ground

Return to that child you used to be

Go outside

Keep your clothes on

And just play

I Need Quiet

I Need Quiet

I need a bomb

Not a big one

Nuclear would be nice

Not even a mega ounce

I need to kill them

They scream all night long

Screaming and whining

I cannot sleep

I cannot think

I just need to get rid of them

I think God made them

Placed them just to bug me

I plan

Think of ways to kill them

But they are always here

Maybe they are like cockroaches

Radiation won’t harm them

I think old school may be the way

A rock in a sling

Lobbed more than one hundred feet in the air

Aimed right

Aimed right on target

I want them dead

More than anything I have ever wanted

I should just stone those damn crows

And finally live my life in quiet

My Last Fairy

My Last Fairy

Mom and dad

Why did you tell me the truth

I was so young

Just a little child

Full of hope and faith

I believed in Santa Clause

The Easter Bunny and fairies

They were alive for me

You didn’t have to tell me

I didn’t want to know

Santa Clause is just a man in a suit

The Easter Bunny isn’t real

Fairies were just the stuff of stories

You didn’t watch as my youth died that day

You didn’t see me cry when I went to bed

You never told me

That would be the night my last fairy friend died

If only I would not have listened

If I would have followed my heart

That fairy would have been flying around my room

And maybe I would still believe in miracles

My Deepest Hatred

My Deepest Hatred

I hate you

Honestly, I cannot stand looking at you

You have become a pain in my ass

You don’t listen to me

You do whatever you want to do

Whenever you want to do it

You destroy my life

My work and my soul

I am so sorry we ever met

True, we have been close for so long

You have been my best friend

Ever since the moment you came into my life

Now, I would love to get rid of you

Throw you in the trash where you belong

Get you out of my life

I want to once again play games with you

Share my poetry and stories with you

To spend so many hours looking at funny cat videos

But, that time is over

Your keyboard doesn’t work the way it should

You mousepad is totally brain damaged

And even your grammar check doesn’t work

I am tired of you and Best Buy is having a sale

So you are gone

Left out on the stairs so someone else can have you

Maybe you’ll behave for them

All the while I play with my new best friend

A two terabyte angel

With a nineteen inch screen

And a wireless keyboard

I could say that I will miss you, but I won’t

So all I will say is goodbye

And you will be gone

Your battery will be dead

But you will not be mine

So, I couldn’t care less.

The Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier

So many thousands have died

So many needless wars

Every land in the world has one

A man who died

Fighting for his country

No one will ever know his name

How he died

Where he took his last breath

Still, he is honored

Never forgotten

He lies in a cold crypt

Alone with no family coming to mourn him

He rests

His soul looking down from Heaven

He knows that someone, somewhere loves him

Even though they don’t know where he is

They mourn for him

Even though they do not know that he was a hero

He is The Unknown Soldier

And, after all these years

He is a national hero

Someone to be respected and honored

Even if no one knows his name

The Distant Storm

The Distant Storm

Let the wind blow

Let the rain fall

Let the lightning strike

We have taken paradise

The paradise God had given us

Raped the land

Killed His creatures for sport

Poisoned the life-giving water

Made the air yellow with our wastes

Turned His paradise into our Hell

He is angry at what we have done

He has waited so long to say “that’s enough”

Let him rage

Let His anger be seen by all

Take the warnings from the sky

Let the wind blow

Let the rain fall

Let the lightning strike

Just remember what it means

He is angry

He is tired of the man He created

And it is His way of telling us to stop

Before He does it for us