Be sure:
are you the issue
or life
or other people?
To yourself
be true

You can't sing?
Never mind
just hum to yourself
some joy you'll find

People can't tell
what's more or less
nor what's worst
or best

so they compare
with others
and after a lifetime
never know any rest

Everyone wants
to be heard
but their own voices
they drown
and forget-

to themselves
strangers
they have become-
in a barren desert
they are lost
and tossed
totally desolate

with their life-story
unread and unrecorded

her sweet toothless smile
napping or yapping at us
with a heart of gold.
10/4/2021

thought into inaction
and action to help shape the World.

Gold is heavy
increases spending power
can be a smile