Even if you don't achieve the desired result
It doesn't matter
Because the greatest happiness in life
Is not in what you possess
But in the process in what you pursue
Remember the fragrance of flowers
You can live up to this time.
Remember when you were a fleeting thought?
Back when your smile was unremarkable?
Your ocean eyes not yet part of the plot?
Before your name caused that unconscious beam?
And now I let you go, you haunt my dreams.
I look far and wide to avoid your blue.
Each curve I touch I bend to the extremes.
I chuck my headphones to flee ragtime tunes.
And now I have a new one in your spot -
A hockey boy. No scintilla of you
Nor your song. He's cute and kind like he ought.
He even loves that game you never liked.
So... care to bring me up to speed with you?
Haha... forgot I am a ghost. What's new?
rich fertile tree with brown-turning wrinkled leaves
surrounded by your own fruitful bounty
many rounded orbs with teeth marks in them
do Kansas deer have teeth?
begin to count them as I rake them up
one apple, two apples, three apples, four
lose count at fifty-eight or sixty-eight, unsure
it is going to be a hard winter I tell my husband,
sorting these apples is a mess.
some are barely salvageable, squishy and overused
there are few without defects, but I do not blame the tree
she does the best she can, every year
this year she surpassed herself
living up to prediction of Farmer’s almanac
winter will be colder and nastier than usual
which explains this unforeseen number of apples in October
His excuses were flimsy. She did not mind.
He lied flat out over and over. She steadily forgave him.
He became violent. She lied for him, making her own excuses.
He said he was innocent of her murder. No one believed him.
Character witnesses were hard to come by for the defending lawyers.
His own mother took the stand, glared at him, pointed and said,
“My boy was bad from birth. He never was any good.”
A gasp could be heard throughout the court room.
Everyone knowing now why he had to be so bad.
L-ive up to your promise,
Y-our vow, you must fulfill;
N-ever fail the Lord your God, follow instead His will.
H-owever hard your life is,
O-bey the Lord's command;
L-ive up to your promise,
L-ife eternal is at hand.
O-n the third day of May, think of the heavenly bliss;
N-ever break what you've sworn, live up to your promise.
L-ive up to the promise,
E-arly twentieth of July;
A-im not to break it, before the Almighty's eye.
P-lease the Lord God above,
A-llow your heart to open;
N-ever forget your vow,
U-nderneath the heaven.
G-o on to fulfill your pledge, for you to gain glorious bliss;
A-s you have taken an oath, live up to the promise.