Live It Or Ditch It
by Odin Roark

How stealth its presence
Forever concealing surprises.
Reasons of compassion or malice?

My fear or lack of,
Justified or not,
Begs explanation
“I suggest a ‘Hi’ for starters
Having never been formally introduced.

“You know,
Though we gaze at each other over the neighborly fence,
We’ve kinda brought this on ourselves,
The estrangement, I mean.

“We’re like a brotherly
Reality meets imagination moment,
That ‘deer in the headlights’ kind of thing,
And we just stare speechless and embarrassed
As some pretense of serious distraction,
Like pigeons fighting over a French fry.
Or pall bearers hefting
A flower-laden casket
Into a hearse about to
Deliver another future passing
Destroys the moment.

You know what I mean?

It’s all so exhausting,
This waiting around for the future,
When there’s so much good air hangin’ now
Just dyin’ to get sucked up…
Right now.

So…

Like I said,”Hi. Probably time
We got acquainted, eh?”