The Madness

Today; got mad at nothing.

My voice it made that clear.

Sometimes you have to search it out…

But it always ends at fear.

Its a thing like pain at failure.

When that thing don’t go my way.

I have such big expectations.

How they arrived is hard to say.

Dennis Mantin

Everything I Wanted

I dreamt I got all I wanted.

It didn’t seem so bad.

Words fell from the shadows.

Then tears fell from the sad.

Had conversations with old friends.

I hadn’t seen them for awhile.

No one ran off screaming.

They seemed at ease in comforts smile.

I awake now to a new month.

September cool yet warm.

I got everything I wanted.

Any port will do now in the storm.

Dennis Mantin

Change

Summer vacation is all over.

Change is in the air.

Just to walk in fields of clover.

Or a cold yet distant stare.

Could be worse, I won’t dwell on that…

I will leave that up to you.

If your memories still haunt you dear.

In your head the monsters grew.

Dennis Mantin

I Could Pretend

It is not that I regard you as a fool… No. I don’t understand you.

I could pretend I do; but really what would be the use?

I wonder if you understand you; steeped in resentments and ignorance.

I choose to be human but I am far from a humanist.

I could pretend that I am not disgusted by this Greed and Stupidity, but really, it is precisely this, that I wish to be separated from.

Dennis Mantin