I’ve been reading many self-help books
lately
I guess, I need help.
I look at my co-workers—
they definitely need help.
They look at me
with sour faces.
I say the right things
at the wrong times.
The principal talks about how to craft an email to build trust—
how not to use trigger words
how to be politically correct.
“Can you build trust with an email?” I asked.
He didn’t know what to say.
I have always said what’s different
and that’s why I’m a poet,
I guess.
I’m tempted
by glory
but my way, is actually a lonely by-way
along the freeway
of humanity.
I don’t want to live under the bridge
but my kind
usually does.
My brother-in-law
is a lot like me—always reading books
but believing them.
The difference is
I don’t.
The more knowledge I listen to
the more convinced I am
that nobody knows anything.
Why should I care
what they say?
You know when something has the power to change You
when you can’t stop reading it.
How many books have I put down, like a lost cause?
Eventually, snowflakes
get lost
in the blizzard that blinds you.
Beauty is in the simple small things
Not in heaps
of brown snow
along the freeway.
Thanks for the link!
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What a synchronicity of thought. I will post something tomorrow. 🙏
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I’m glad that you enjoyed, Akata!
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Makes me think a little of Bob Dylan. What would he have done with today’s technology? Would he have sent a song to Joan Baez by email? Hey there Mr. Technology man, …
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Yes…Yes!!! 🙂
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Eventually, we all realize, those “sound advice”, are only “sound” to those who come up with them, that, those advices offered to us, don’t, necessary, work well at all.
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My worst vice, is advice! 🙂
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