(Written January 2021)
Asylum seekers
Flooding my brain,
I’m teaching kiddies
In the pouring rain.
Mums are phoning me]
Exhausted and overwrought.
Crying their souls are lost
(perhaps they’ve been bought?)
Mrs Shawinigan’s moaning
Imploring me:
“They said my friend’s negative?
How can that be?”
“We’ve been friends for years
She’s always had my back!
How DARE anyone label
My friend with lack?”
I listen, dumbfounded
Nnot sure what to say?
Mrs Shawnigan you never smile
Or even enjoy your day?
You bitch and moan
About everyone!
Being around you, honestly
Is anything BUT fun!
But I say nothing, of course
I pretend to care
Plaster a fake smile
At her overshare.
Moving on I’m in a lecture
The hall is quite full,
200 young students
(I feel like a fool)
I’m wearing my glasses!
(While cursing you!)
I don’t look distinguished
I feel overdue!
I catch the lecturer’s ey
The electricity is strong!
I quickly walked past!
(No, I’m probably wrong)
I tried to take a seat
Between two young girls.
Who chitter and chatter
Through perfect white pearls.
One seems irritated
Annoyed and tries to move.
No
“Excuse me! Would you mind?”
(This chick is plain rude!)
Next she plonks herself down
On my fucking lap!
If I wasn’t so civilized
I’d give her a slap!
I’m fuming inside
As I am forced to shift,
I pass a loud comment, but I don’t resist.
All eyes on me
(Ground please swallow me up!)
A familiar shame engulfs,
Until suddenly I wake up!
I love my sleep
I really do!
It’s the movies in my head
That are constantly on view!
I wish they would stop
And disappear.
I could wake up in the morning
With a head that’s clear.
But if it were not for them
Would I have started my poetry?
A means to express
My own personal rosary.
It’s truly cleansing
To simply get these thoughts out.
When I stand up for the day
I’m left with little doubt,
I am happier freer
More able to accept…
Life in this world
Is never a safe bet!
Instead, I make of each day
what I choose it to be.
I hold my answers
I brandish my own key.
If I look hard enough
At what I don’t love,
I will find something beautiful.
to make thereof!
