At Most A Toast

At Most A Toast

30 May 2017

Thoughts and a toast to the newlyweds!

Hopefully, from your warmhearted parents

You learned how not to be boneheads,

But life skills made their appearance;

Like how to reconcile a bank account

And how to change a car’s flat tire.

From siblings, thinking of the amount,

Of years spent fighting with fire,

You have now let hostilities cease.

With an armed truce, there’s peace.

A happy marriage extender

Takes additional personal skills.

First you experience surrender,

When limerence brings thrills.

Surrendering to love has its importance.

Later, personal needs will surface,

So you’ll need to learn to balance

To meet the demands of spousal service.

In the future, adding a child will make 

For a triangular teeter-totter;

Dragging more tests in its wake,

Making for a trial by fire and water,

And requiring powers of persuasion.

Lastly, here’s to this happy occasion.

Know Woe

Know Woe
6 May 2016

My commute was horrible.
People weren’t very nice.
The other drivers were terrible.
I almost got hit twice.
Traffic was the worst, wouldn’t you know,
The real possibility of a flat tire
In the miles and miles of slow and go
Just pushed my stress levels higher.
Arriving home, I promptly collapse.
Tomorrow’ll be another rat race.
I dream of retiring, perhaps.
My life needs a change of pace
And I’m in danger of a relapse.
Thinking, I don’t see any choice,
My life’s stalled, stuck in a rut.
Nothing makes my heart rejoice,
But I’m angry enough to kick butt.
Alas, I don’t know who’s butt to kick.
I want to feel better, that’s for sure.
All this stress is making me sick.
Tonight I’ll make alcohol my cure.
One immediate affect of drinking
Is a change in mood and thinking.
So as to not borrow sorrow,
I’ll think about tomorrow tomorrow.