A Bit of the Happy, Bit of the Sad

By C.D.Ten Cate

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796071887

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AN ALLIGATOR NEVER WAGS ITS TAIL

What have I to be happy about? I’ve been branded as

Ugly, slow and unteachable.

A face that only a mother could love

Greets the world;

And that is all they see.

If I did

It would something remarkable,

It would be noted as a fluke.

If I came in first,

It would not count.

One would have to be crazy

To extend a hand to me.

So I do my wagging

Where no one else can see.

ANY LOVE

If you had died when our love did,

That would make it much easier;

No response expected, nor reprisal

g1ven.

Anytime!

When we ignited, it was wall-to-wall

WOW.

But I changed; you changed.

We evolved; it developed.

What did you expect?

Anyhow!

We complimented each other. Then you grew up; I never did.

Wife became mother, husband - kid. Anymore!

But love has not passed.

It simply lost the channel;

Connection busted, picture fuzzy

Tune it back.

Right now!

AS I LIVED IT

At ten my life was wrapped

In the pages of Geo and Look. Picture after picture inspired

My existence beyond the town limits.

Out there laid my dreams.

At twenty I existed in others. All that was me refracted

From what others said to or of.

Their thoughts could deflate or reflate. This was my