Aliens among us
Children
Kittens
Puppies
Foreigners

They get the benefit
Of the doubt

So should everyone

We are all strangers

Let’s just take it easy

What has made us so
Fat

So
Sad

So
Anxious

So
ADD

So
Hungry for Money

So
Ignorant

What is the link?

Another day
Another dollar
Another pill
I have to swallow

Another chance
To shed my skin
But more like
Waiting to begin

I spin my wheels
Here in the mud
Flinging dirt
And pumping blood

I’m learning more
With each new day
How to live
And love more ways

I note the beauty
That I see
Colorful trash
A bright new weed

But late at night
I lie alone
And dream of orbs
So far from home

And where I’ll live
After this life
Or how I’ll feel
When I’m a wife

And whether kids
Will calm my angst
Make me feel
Less out of place

Or whether
I will always be
A stranger
To this planet E

A lucky planet
Somewhere
Is a spinning Goldilocks
Not too hot
Not too cold
Juuuust Right

The planet is on fire
Like a flame
Devours oxygen
So does life
Devour energy
A green revolution

Are we a fungus
Which could infect every
Galaxy?
Or are we a flame
Burning bright
On this world’s
Fuel?

A speck of blue
Orbiting a grain of sand
Says there’s
A more important
Story to tell
Than what I was
Afraid of today

It’s hard to keep your sanity
When you look so far away
Or so far within
You leave and come back
But living is like riding a bike
Most of us are on autopilot
Anyway

Don’t mess with me today
Don’t push my buttons
Don’t tickle me
Don’t say anything
You think is funny
My shield is down
And without food
I have no strength
To defend myself
These hormones
Close the gap
Between my brain
And my tongue
My wounded heart
And my hand
So don’t tease me
Don’t taunt me
Don’t make me
Think about anything
Unless you’re ready for
The flood

Millenia passed
Birds sing
Flip a burger
Milkshake
Moose horns
Billboard sign
Make ends meet
Milk and honey
Murder mystery
Bananas for me

These bodies
Mortal & fragile
Our soul
Immortal & immense
We yearn for the peaceful
Space between the stars
Where our better half dwells
Meanwhile
We clumsily
Move these bodies
Against gravity
And wonder
If anyone is watching
And laughing.

The soft side of the sun
A hypnotizing orb
Peering gently
Through clouds
Lined with gold
I moonbathe
In the cool light
A rooftop party
A shooting star
Nature’s way
Of letting us know we are
Not forgotten
Even when most of the world
Sleeps

Perfect
Is an intention
Not a destination

Change
Is permanent

Results
Though desirable
Need not
Drive the journey

Throwing
For throwing’s sake
Cleaning
For cleaning’s sake
Ensures
You won’t give up
When there is
Nothing to hope for

In that rare quiet space
When I lose myself
And become aware
Of the bold white
Aura my peaceful
Nature exudes
I remember
We are one
Expressed in many
And you exist because
My grandparents lived
And your reaction
Was their oppression
And my love
Is your future