Closer To Fine
my garden in a Spanish town
is overgrown with weeds
due to lack of time and purpose
one thing that grows is beautiful lemons
too many to make lemonade
for me and my wife
when life overburdens
motivation is lacking and the word
seems to be under-whelming
the trowel appears too small for the lot
my wife lover best friend and soulmate
is at least as depressed as I am
a new situation
life threatening to a degree
for in the past we have been taken turns
with our mental afflictions
in Spanish they say media naranja
the other half of the orange
for the expression ‘better half’
we both feel that the other is the better one
but can agree upon that neither of us is complete
therefore the poet is half an orange
quite ironic with all those lemons on the trees
yesterday I used the phrase ‘closer to fine’
which I had never knowingly done before
and she played me the song with that title
by the Indigo Girls
‘well darkness has a hunger that is insatiable
and lightness has a call that’s hard to bear’
all I wish for both of us is to be closer to fine
how and when
‘there is more than one answers to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line’
the song advises to take life less seriously
and to seek less source from some definitive
life is not always a laughing matter
but music and poetry help a lot
as the nib scribbles
and the song rings in my soul
15th February 2023
Copyright © Kai Michael Neumann | Year Posted 2023
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