Category: Factual

      “The Golden Years”

Life is a funny twist of fate.

Your born with energy and curiosity.

Your thoughts are of love, not hate.

Things are the way they ought to be.

 

As you age your perception grows.

There is more than you and mom.

Life goes on and awareness grows.

Life at this age is pretty calm.

 

Then your life encompasses friends.

Then the world is your concern.

You wonder where it all begins.

You study, live, and you learn.

 

Then you join the world as an adult.

You get a job and earn a living.

You often wonder if you missed the boat.

You struggle, but, you keep on giving.

 

Then comes a wife and family.

More bills, more stress and responsibility.

You love them all more than candy.

The kids will climb the same hills, you see.

 

Finally, you reach the age to retire.

The ‘Golden Years’ have finally arrived.

Your glad to finally be out of the mire.

“It was rough but, I made it,” you cried.

 

You had big plans. Just needed the time.

Fishing, hunting, and ‘honey do’s.’

Being retired is not a crime.

No worries of ‘If you snooze you lose.’

 

But, ‘The Golden Years’ really suck.

You rarely see your friends now.

Health problems can cost the buck.

Hearing and vision fade. You have a cow.

 

People won’t return your E-Mail.

Even the weather seems against you.

At least your not in jail.

Could be worse. You could be sued.

 

‘Waiting for God’ is a better description.

For when you reach those ‘Golden Years,’

this gives others  a true depiction

of the ‘Golden Years’ without the tears.—–R. W. Johnson—-(2012)

 

      Positively Negative

I am positive that you are negative.

Even though you say you are positive.

That’s negative thinking, to think you’re positive.

Positive thinking would be to accept you’re negative.

You’ll give a negative response, I’m positive.

You can never turn a negative into a positive.

Opposites attract. Of that I am positive.

Otherwise, I would try to avoid the negative.

But, negativity is positively negative.

A real turn off to someone  who is positive.

So why keep trying when you are negative?

That is a mystery question, I am positive.

Maybe too many positives become a negative.

Yet, that doesn’t seem right. I am positive.

A positive attitude will build you up positively.

A negative attitude will drag you down. Positively.

In the end I am confused . Are we negative or positive?

Either way. it is one big mess,—– positively.

——————————————————R. W. Johnson—–(2014)

 

Limited Options

The blood.

The pain.

The horrible memories

Flashing through my brain.

 

My mind’s eye

Sees them all again;

Like a nightmare

Filled with wicked sin.

 

I tremble in fear.

I scream, I cry.

I cannot escape,

Though I may try.

 

The scars upon my body.

The scars within my mind.

Have returned again to haunt me

From a past long left behind.

 

A childhood forgotten.

Experiences long denied.

Now, suddenly remembered

Have left me terrified.

 

I huddle in a corner.

I hide within my bed.

But, I can’t escape these demons

That keep screaming in my head.

 

This Clockwork Orange experience

That disrupts my normal day.

Is driving me to suicide.

Is there another way?

 

I cry for help.

But, no one hears.

I run and hide

To escape my fears.

 

Curse my father.

Curse my mother too.

They’re  the ones responsible

For what I’m going to do.

 

I’m going where pain can’t hurt me.

Where fears no longer rule.

If there’s a God in heaven

I’m coming now to you.————————-R.W. Johnson—– (1988)