Sweetness/Anger

Photo by John Noonan on Unsplash

Have you ever just gotten bone tired of “go along to get along”? Me too.

Sweetness is the mask

held arm's length from the face,

and on the face is Anger.

Anger means going away from the sight of your loved ones

to stomp and kick and throw,

to leave Anger somewhere else,

to leave Self there too.

Self lies with anger in a field somewhere,

near new, deep, jagged holes for the potato plants,

next to sunken footprints --

the reminder of the weight of a body disconnected

from a heart that yearns for connection.

Sweetness is the avatar with just enough reality

to fool you

if you don't get too close.