SOLITUDE

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Those who love
fiercely and
strongly
often find themselves
wrongly 
wronged
or so it may seem
as opposed to those who
settle
for what presents itself
as a long-term solution
to solitude
which one who loves 
fiercely
eventually learns
is the long-term solution 
to 
two 
(many) wrongs
not making a right 

ALONG THE PATH

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads--dVerse Poets Pub

old couples

meandering through the park

make me smile

though I'll never be fifty percent

of that kinda awesome twosome

peeps with pooches

the more the better

movin

stoppin

sniffin

make me smile

'specially when they choose me

to spontaneously lick

(the pooches not the peeps)

when I happen along

though all the lickers

I've known up close and personal

have slurped their last of me

 speakin of which...

young couples 

with strollers

movin along the path

always conversing

animatedly

about somethin

cuz they've got a lot goin on

in their world

make me smile

though no one's ever called me "daddy"

'cept a couple of floozies

back in the day

along the way

along the path 

I choose to walk alone 

but in my solitude

there's still some gratitude

still some reasons

every day

to smile

cuz it finally hit me ya know

that when I pop outta dat bed

each mornin

and still be hangin

round

still upright

and not uptight

that it's only by The Grace

it's only by The Grace

it's only by The Grace

say it again

it's only by The Grace

so come what may

I'll always find a reason

don't even need 

a freakin reason

to smile