Story #87 - A poem for the world

Don't you find it funny
how we wait for bad things to happen

so we can share our humanity?

Don't you find it funny

that without evil

everybody would be like a zombie?

Don't you find it funny

how arrogant we are to one another

based on our attire?

Don't you find it funny

that unless it's your birthday

people don't call and tell you 

to have a great day?

Don't you find it funny

how we keep afloat

through drugs, booze, and fat?

Don't you find it funny

that the things left unsaid to your family

will live with you in regret?

Don't you find it funny

how we go in bouts of depression

only to see that we hide from our fruition?

Don't you find it funny

that as children

we want to be adults

but as grown-ups 

we need to feel young again?

Don't you find it funny

how the good news 

is always

overshadowed by the bad?

Don't you find it funny

that we disallow ourselves

the pleasure of smiling everyday?


Picture copyrighted by Sam Hollingsworth.