What, When, Why, Where and How?
© 2007
Dan Johnson

Questions, that’s all I have,
Never stayed in one place long enough to listen to the answer…or answers.

No regrets, well maybe a few, but that’s for another time and place.

When you told me long ago that my life was trapped in the vortex of a mighty wind, I didn’t listen,
And went off doing the same old crap…again and again.

As I turned to look for you, big surprise, you were gone,
Instead of things getting better they got worse, much worse…

I felt as if I were in the cast of an Oliver Stone movie.
The title of the movie sets the theme.
The cast all dark and hazy
memories from my past,
But true to form, a movie like this isn’t the norm.
Half way through the shoot Oliver decides to change things up.
He thinks this will add to the plot and build the characters,
According to his vision.

But his vision is often blurry eyed…the ceiling is now the floor,
The floor is now, just outside the front door. 
My life is upside down,
Ollie insists its all part of the natural flow of his (here we go again) vision,
But…I don’t see it that way, (call it artistic differences)
Fact is I don’t know what I’m looking at,
Is it real? Is it unreal? How am I ‘supposed to feel?

Why can’t I distinguish the balance of things?
Life,
Death,
Peace,
Happiness,
Joy
And sadness?

They are all such a blur…then in final triumph, Stone’s movie comes to an end.
And when the credits are proclaimed like white lines passing by on the interstate,
In final despair, I cannot find my name?

Still leaving me to ponder;
What, when, why, where and how?
Dan Johnson
© 2007