I saw you smile,
Now, I'm smiling too
You say so many words.
I know you don't mean all of them.
When you say 'leave',
I know your heart would search for mine.
I don't want to be the distance that measures away from you.
Just smile at me.
I saw you smiling,
Now, I'm smiling too.
Then your face sold a different tune.
I should have avoided being in that frame.
When you say 'what' with the sternest expression.
I still smile because I know your heart will hurt for mine later.
I don't want to go through the stress.
So, just smile at me.
I saw you smiling.
Now, I'm smiling too.
'As much as it seems, that I'm yours'..
The sweetest part of those words was mine.
The former part was you wishing I'd still be there.
That I'll stay when I visibly erode that smile from your face.
But I'll still smile at you because you thought of me that way.
So, please, just smile at me.
like Labrador retriever
squirrel wags his bushy tail
forth and back and forth
happy go lucky* amidst
Autumnal storm of acorns
*cheerfully unconcerned about the future
Be easygoing, jovial, beaming good cheer,
With a happy-go-lucky coat hiding gloom's smear.
Beaming a carefree heart, shining a joyful grin,
Let's rekindle the joyousness that lies within.
No troubles too heavy, no burdens too large,
Can quell a positive attitude in charge,
That finds joyfulness in the simplest recall,
Of revered and cherished good times, big and small.
All it takes is a simple extra step, to lift
The mood out of depression's dire, mire muck, and shift
Gears to a higher plane, with you in charge again,
Switching each negative to a positive gain.
So kick your heels up, skip along with smiley laugh.
Go happily plucky, head held high, like a giraffe.
Happy-go-lucky alive and free
Joyful in all weathers
Embracing the silver lining
Skipping, joie de vivre
Spirit enlivening, vibrant, rejoicing
All was well in the kingdom until squirrely
Burlesque queens with raunchy, yet
Candid sense of humors and delectably
Delightful appetites of various natures began
Eliminating unappreciative uptight relatives and fair weather
Friends who could not empathize and did not care about their show.
Gearing up to annihilate the competition with laughs and giggles, and
Heroically re-build unearned, sullied community-given
Images into what they’ve always believed to be truth-telling, these
Jovial, unified,
Kindred, happy-go lucky souls were soon
Laughing their shoes off with crazed relief and corrupting
My own self-assured Uncle
Nathan who at 19,
Often
Portrayed uptight
Queen Viviana, in his weekly drag queen side show,
Respectfully and with love, and a smidge of irreverence.
So let this be a lesson to Drag Queens
To whom we owe respect.
Under no circumstances should Queen
Viviana’s
Wayward Son,
Xisus, be allowed to wear
Yellow tights, garter belt or dress. Not that
Zanier things have not happened in the palace.
Looking at your smile
Turns my frown upside down
And hearing your voice
Speeds up the pace in my pulse
Feeling a rush of energy now changed
The words that once was a curse
Turned out to be a blessing
From the time I laid my pupils on you
And had me in a daze feeling so amazed
Running my cuticles against your skin
This is the next chapter to Chronicles
Because now, I’m Happy Go Lucky
Looking so funky as the way I throw a little switch in my walk
Revealing the curves of my hips
Imaginations running wild as into the vibrations of parts
Guarding my heart having to say,
Can I feel some sensation?
My reply is “Child Please”
Right now, I’m just Happy Go Lucky, looking so funky.
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