Having thoughts lots about dying. And other things that I don’t know. Its not the fear that’s got me down. Just that I don’t want to go. Now sure I know I have no choice. Has been made abundant and clear. This transformation is all the rage. I just kinda like it here. I hear […]
Abundant and Clear
I took my last drink of alcohol or drug!
I remember the date but I don’t remember the time…
It’s over!
Oh my goodness.
Oh my gracious!
So few expressions.
So many faces…
So I was young, I thought I could try.
There was no plans on ever goodbye.
Stood at the ledge and said I could fly.
You are all there and I’m wondering why.
Why ya all mad, and why ya all fussed?
Has ya never seen a poor boy concussed.
I really wasn’t great before the fall.
I had nothing that you wanted at all.
I just wanted to be standing that tall.
To be more like you and then I crawl.
Tell me why you are all mad and fussed?
Has ya never seen a boy concussed?
Dennis Mantin
Rich man drives a taxi.
Poor man drives a Ford.
But my old man goes down the street.
With 4 wheels on a board.
He was grey and old, sitting slumped, looking over his bi-focals in his comb over, complaining to another streetcar passenger about the good Ole days before all the Polish people moved out of Ronchaisvailles for Mississauga.
I tried to imagine him as a younger man and failed. It was like when I was young. I saw older people as being like that always. Like they were born that way.
When do they get that comfortable? I never have. I am probably older than he is now…
I stay silent and write in the still center while the world spins around me.
We were so loud & opinionated in the storm of youth before the calm of fat & grey…
I hope I live long enough to hear the quiet roar of this internet lot in their post advice phase.
Nothing new going on here.
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