Slipping Loyalty

Excerpts from the Poem: Slipping Loyalty

Is your desire still to love and Cherish the wife of your youth
Or have the office gals turned your head if you had to tell the truth? ...

After all of these years why is it now that you have no self-control?
Is the incessant asking the secretary for ‘help’ your way to cajole? ...

You think you can live in two worlds and have your feet on either side. Your footing is not sure. Better watch marriage-slides due to slippery pride. ...

TAKE A SHOT

You are going to miss 100% of the shots that you don't take;
The law of probabilities suggests that they're will some you make.
Forget the fear and excuses that are causing this immovable stalemate
You can't get any better without practice, that's how to become great.
If you don't go for it now you won't, your dream will certainly expire;
So make your fantasy reality, visualize your target, ready, aim, fire!

My Date with Gym

Muscles are fatigued, losing the fight with cramps
Forget the stairs, where's the wheel-chair ramps?

...Can't stand erect on these throbbing thighs
Can't even keep open these heavy lids on the eyes...

Thought you were good for me, despite the feedback from each limb;
Sorry the courtship didn't go as planned, I gotta leave you Gym!

JUST BE CONTENT

Excerpts from the poem "Just Be Content"

...There comes a point when one must realize they can't be hell-bent
On having everything immediately and still just be content....

...If you're forever looking ahead, you're not enjoying the moment;
Then your life flashes before your eyes like you didn't even own it.
Contentment shouldn't only be felt when you meet the next goal;
Not enjoying the journey is downright torture to the soul...

...If you can't celebrate the little victories and shake your party rattle;
You will deflate quickly when you actually do win the battle...

HOW MANY VICTIMS?

Excerpts from "HOW MANY VICTIMS?"

... It's like you're driving to your destination with a blindfold on;
Then wonder why you keep ending up on someone's front lawn....

In your hurry to get to your goal and have sought after clout;
You're creating too much wreckage and taking pedestrians out!

...You hit them in the crosswalk, head on in the collision;
Their dreams are now up in smoke because of your decision.

...How many victims have to fall for you to get where you want to be?
How will you answer to the charge of manslaughter in the 1st degree?

DOORMAT

1st Half of the Poem "Doormat"

I'm done. You've trampled on me many times. You won't anymore;
I'm done being your floor mat, forever waiting outside your door.
Being that squish of comfort on cement as you come and go;
You've not made me an equal, but turned me into something low.

It was always a competition with you, I didn't sign up to compete;
You’re threatened by my resilience, so you use me to wipe your feet.
You’ve dropped your ashes on me, I've been singed by the burn;
Set down on me your canned goods, paid for with what I earn....

Dark Misery Long

Excerpts from the poem: Dark Misery Long

Darkness came, made itself known
Stretched over all the window shown
Terrorizing, daunting, a relentless bully
Not letting up enough to recover fully.

I hear children's sequels of happy delight
But have no joy seeing them without light...

It's true you can tell when love is in the air
Pose my arms to hug, but no one is there...

Stepped into my future and all felt right
Never before seen such astonishing light...

Encased in unfathomable love, pondered
Why was it so long that I had wandered?...