If I Knew What I Learned

If I knew
What I learned
Than I’d tell it
But you see
Having lived it
I don’t know it
If I don’t seem
Lost
I just don’t
Show it
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

The Weight of Madness

I inhale the weight of madness
I exhale the weight of light
I acknowledge my sadness
I acknowledge it is with myself I fight
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

You Can Carry It

You can carry it

That’s alright

Set it down

If you lose the fight

Use finesseInstead of might

But

Make no decision

Due to fright

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

Sibiling Rivalry/Last Piece of Pizza

She was awaken and wired
Silent hidden charged
Believing I conspired
In the room she barged
Me red handed!
Last of pizza I pawed
Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

Digital Karma

Digital karma

Swirling in motion

To stay in the center

Requires eight paths

Vigilant effort

A heart ever open

Resilient skin

Nothing is past

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

Reason

I was wrong

I changed

Now I’m better

Didn’t know

Was taught

Now it’s true

These are things of wonder

That reason can do for you

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

The Peak of Life

I want to put my feet up

By the river

The sound

Of the flow

Around me

Summer

Coming to life

The peak of life awakening

Once again

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

I Feel Like Bartelby

I feel like Bartelby
The world swirls around me
Preferring not to
Yet doing so
Modernity is a hurricane
Not a gentle rain

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

A Bee in a Flower

Do not abide

A lack of grace

In the world

Find it

In small things

Grand plans fade

Crumble to dust

Yet

A bee in a flower

Can sustain

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013

Sometimes You Drink Yourself Sober

Sometimes you drink yourself sober

Facing the morning sun

Sometimes you could not be surer

The whiskey definitely won

Gene G. McLaughlin 2013