Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

The Winter Food

I listened to him cynically speak
from our dinner table
the man who repressed
and withheld from me
spewed on about the rulers
who obviously wielded their power
over him
in this world I survived, so far
a world so dark
for a man who had acted
like he had no fear
but knew to stockpile his earnings
in a bank and in bonds
for sixty years long
while I lingered in hand-me-down
rags and survived on meals
prepared from the finest
discount ingredients
I listened to worst case scenarios
about how we could lose
our liberties with life
if we didn't chose
to live more safely
cautious as a nut job storing
a lifetime of winter food in a tree
He died and left it all to me.
Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

Sorry that I didn't share.
He might have been right.

9.7.20