This life
Was not all I had hoped,
Not, if you will,
All I had bargained for.

And that is, of course,
The point.

That Which Is
Bids us sweetly to return
“Come home, sweet darling
Wake and return.
We have such fun
All waiting
Your arrival.”

So why tarry
In the valet parking
For hell?

(c) Sare Liz Anuszkiewicz