You, Me And Everything We Think

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry? - Thoreau

another day of mystery, muck and mire

as the mercury drops, i stoke up the fire

perhaps i'm just a cold-hearted liar

another beggar for hire trying to climb the good book's steep spire

or maybe a young nobleman in training to be an esquire

needing to aspire to things far higher

ringing a scuffed, proclaiming bell and wiping away my tears as the life sobber and town crier

'til the crowning day when someone finally relents and kneels as they call  me, "sire"

i'm not here for you to admire

not even when i don a white robe, adjust my halo and croon with the choir

i may be tangled up in eden's briar

caught up in a situation that's dire

you've got to be alive and care in order to perspire

diapered and dying to expire

my balding head no longer in need of a hair dryer

but that's a whole lot better than hell's barbed wire

i know not what tomorrow will bring

nor what song it may sing

probably the kitchen sink

along with you, me and everything we think

Author's Note

"One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

I hope that is not a pic of your kitchen lol

[Pete]

i thought that's what cafe friends are for, wait, don't tell me, i only do sonnets not dishes ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe . ......

[Sami Khalil]

Accumulated dishes after a feast; you might can hire a maid to clean up the mess; now, as for out lives, we have to clean up ours and accept the consequences.
A great reflective poem.

[Pete]

where's hazel when you need her? it is said that we should always go with our strengths. i'm much better at creating messes than cleaning them up ... :)

[M]

Wow, this is powerful. The theme of self-reflection and uncertainty speaks deeply to me. Very uniquely expressed.

[Pete]

yes, is good to reflect but we mustn't get stuck there.
hank you for sharing thoughts ... :)