REPEATING

I try not to repeat

I try not to repeat

Short memory loss is not fun

Then others insist that you have it

I wonder if they have considered

That butting in just as you are about

To make a point disrupts your thinking

And then you cannot remember what

You were going to say

Later you remember and as you

Are about to explain they cut you

Off again with irrelevant remarks

About something unrelated

It could be frustrating but you

Draw the conclusion that they were

Not interested in the first place

Some are uncouth and have no

Manners, which I realize so I am

Now more of an observer than

A participator

If someone recognizes this and

Claims that I am not engaging I

Compliment them on their astute

Observation.  They have no reply

And just look at me.  I go on about

My business leaving them in a daze

Stanski

September 14, 2022, ^

REPEAT

The path may not be easy

Take it if you will

It is the way to success

And totally uphill

You may laugh and ask why

Wouldn’t some other road do?

Which is the one you would choose

If it were left to you

I have been where you are now

And have heard the same

Those who were helping me

Heard the same refrain

You have to take the advice

If you want your slice

By Steve Haarman

November 26, 2012 ^