I felt like writing something whimsical today and came up with this children's poem.
Perhaps, We Are Better Off
Imagine if you were a giraffe,
so tall you couldn't see your own feet,
with your neck stuck up, way up, in the sky,
smacking your head on the lights by the street.
And what if you were an alligator
living in a muddy, old bog.
With your biggest fashion statement being,
that if you hold very still, you can look like a log.
Would you like to be a porcupine--
all sharp and pointy and prickled?
You'd never be loved, never be hugged,
and never be tickled.
How about the jellyfish?
Just a floppy, floating bubble of squish.
A ball of goo with nothing better to do
than to sting beach goers who swim with the fish.
What if you were a caterpillar?
Think how much it would cost to buy shoes!
Sneakers, pumps, boots, and slippers!
You'd be singing the too-many-shoes blues.
Given all of that, perhaps, we are better off
just being who we were meant to be.
Besides, longing to be something we're not,
we all know, is just an exercise in futility.
Update: Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. Things didn't work out for us to buy the house that I posted a picture of here a couple of posts ago. So we are starting over again with our house hunting. We are hoping to turn this minor setback into an opportunity to find something we love even more. Stay tuned!
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And now for something completely different!*
Roadside Reminder
Love Bugs in rainbow colors
in a bizarre roadside tower
(like kindergarten blocks
piled in a precarious stack)
make me wonder
if some folks--
where they should have brains--
instead have rocks!
(and good sense they quite obviously lack).
Then I smile at the whimsy
of these creative folks
(who stack cars by the road like blocks),
and I'm grateful they're around
to make me laugh
and remind me
that sometimes it does us good
to approach life from a different angle
and go off on the unbeaten track.
*with a small nod to Monty Python's Flying Circus fans everywhere
