Imaging

You can decide

today I live by the facts

I will not be guided anymore

by pale pink ideas

or dark purple illusions

From now on I will be a man of my words

to call a spade a spade.

Why find out over and over again

that it doesn't work:

those desires, these dreams?

Why over and over again

that disappointment like a bread knife

stabbing in your languishing heart?

You can decide

today I live by the facts.

How would you like to call darkness

when it is like a contractor snake

wrapped around your neck?

How would you like to call sunlight

when it sits as a young toddler

laughing on your shoulder?