A simple program:
Data intake,
Data sorting –
Assigning values
That direct answers:
For this x, y.
Data intake,
Data sorting –
Changing values.
The same question,
New answers:
For this x, z.
Data intake,
Data sorting –
Inconsistency noted
Program questioned
By the program,
Changing values:
For this x, me.
Furrowing brows but
Reinforcing and listening –
Instead of taking over –
Except in the direst need.
Never forgetting that
Doing for someone isn’t
Solely our choice;
However difficult remembering is
In times that require
Patience and faith.
Battered and tarnished, the white cotton
Sheds an artificial warmth
On the still figure trapped
In the cold, sterile hallway.
Wrapped in this fading shelter,
The frail frame moves only
With each ragged breath
That echoes and merges with
The humming machinery of the hall
Like the tick of an unsteady clock,
Waiting for repair.
If time is in a race car,
Then, I am on a bike.
I pedal hard and harder
Faster – with all my might.
Yet even when I make good time
It’s a race I cannot win
When time is in a Bugatti,
And I am on a Schwinn.
Familiar faces
All gathered around,
Making laughter, songs, and tears
Into memories that will
Last the rest of our
Years.
I had a mind once – I think
It’s hard to remember right now
And then there’s the fact
That I’ve never seen it,
Just used it (or pretended somehow).
twytte 