Curtis Johnson Poet Free verse

I Don'T Know How

How do you with passion and purpose,                                                                                                                        get to doing for someone else the                                                                                                                                             very thing you don't want to do?
How do you say yes,                                                                                                                                                      when you'd rather say no, because                                                                                                                             there is nothing in you that wants to go?
How do you stop dragging your feet,                                                                                                                                        moving it both slowly and silently,                                                                                                                      longing for traction that never comes?
And how do you put your best foot forward                                                                                                                  for, not yours, but someone else's happiness?
How do you brace yourself for the 'show and tell',                                                                                                                   as you do your very best to see that it ends well?
I cannot truly say that I have the answers to all                                                                                                                 the above, but somehow, I resolved them all.

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Darlene De Beaulieu June 1, 2022 at 12:10 PM Hello Curtis, just by reading this poem, i really do not know what to tell you. Enjoy your day my friend. Darlene De Beaulieu June 2, 2022 at 4:37 AM Hello Curtis, reading your reply made me laugh.Yes funny how we get things done. Bless you my friend. Curtis Johnson June 1, 2022 at 4:29 PM Hi, Darlene. You made me laugh. Funny how we get things done. Bless you, my friend.