Thursday, February 3, 2022

Words

If you had a 1000 words, only a 1000 words to speak,
Would you use them up all at once or only once a week?

Would you use them in anger? Would you use them in kindness?
Would you search out old mistakes and ask for forgiveness?

Would you ever help a stranger? Spend a few words to befriend?
Would ever reach out to a friend, just to check in on them?

At the end of it would you have regrets? Before you bid adieu?
Is a good thing you don't have only a 1000 words, you only pretend like you do. 

Crooked Paper Plane

There was once a little boy of an impish disposition
That made a crooked paper plane with love and conviction


He used all his might and threw that crooked paper plane
The plane it did fly, right through the broken window pane

The boy rushed to the window with hope in his eyes
His only wish for that crooked plane to touch the blue sky

Now past the broken glass and free from it's man made prison
The crooked paper plane set about trying to complete its mission

It flew past majestic buildings, it flew past broken trees
Yet it could not find that extra lift, that extra bit of breeze

It flew undeterred, surveying the curious human land
Filled with houses of concrete and castles made of sand

Alas, that crooked paper plane was running out of time
With gravity now keen to meet it and the absence of sunshine

It searched the vast earth for a final resting place
And landed on a nearby pyre with the utmost of grace

That crooked paper plane finally gave up on the boy's hope
The burning fire devoured it and left but ashes and smoke

But finally that smoke emerged and began its ascend high
That crooked paper plane and boy did finally touch the sky