A Human Condition

Growing up in fear
Makes you shrink
Try to become little
Disappear

If they can’t see you
Then they won’t hurt you
Maybe they’ll forget you
Leave you alone


Little and lonely
Made to be nothing
Hiding and covered
Means nothing to them

Covered you’re missing
Seeing yourself
Hiding from life
Empty and yearning


The world beckons
The scent of life
The feeling of hope
A human condition

The trick yet unknown
Is to feel you must open
Expose self so tender
Trust company, love, heart, and head

The heart has no mind
The mind leads by the heart
Love laughs in the corner
Thought you knew its intent

Look around and you see
Imperfection quite thorough
Pitfalls, shard, tricks and mirrors
Must be mad those that walk

Little and lonely
Made to be nothing
Hiding and covered
Lesson well learned

Keep safe, not so lonely
Keep safe, still and quiet
Keep safe, getting restless
Talking to echoes, sighs and ghosts

How life is enticing
Whispering to the shadows
To the lonely, to the hopeless
Come play, come dance, come walk

Flirting by inches
The memory deceives you
That time was not really
Now’s the one that you want

The trick yet unknown
Is to feel you must open
Expose self so tender
Trust till knife hits the Bone


How many times to relive
The cycle unending
Life seeps out to seep in
Feel no joy if no pain

Love laughs in the corner
How life is enticing
Whispering to the shadow
Come play, come dance, come walk

Take a moment to recover
Catch a breath, stand up, dust off
Hand back life its knife
Wash the blood, give hair a toss

Stride forward towards the next round
Arms wide, chest out, chin up

Is it insanity,
Has the mind been lost?
What are the options………
What are the thoughts……

Little and lonely
Made to be nothing
Hiding and covered
Empty and yearning

Not today – not to be empty
Hiding and covered cannot see the light

Life walks by
With a wink and a nod to see
If you nod back And embrace the ride