A child’s psychosis
A doctor’s clinical stare
A parent’s anguish
A glimpse through the blinds
Reveals children’s books and toys
In a waiting room
Each time I walk by
The child psychologist’s door
I feel stark sadness
Don’t believe in God?
How can your life have meaning?
How can you be good?
It’s a charter school
For all the children but yours
We just don’t like you
Help around the house?
Don’t I shop, cook, make the beds
And do the laundry?
I need a weekend
Two days of quiet peace mixed
With four hours of work
Choose what you will do
And make sure you get it done
You can’t do it all
Opposing views. On
Economic stimulus?
Or social justice?
Need to get things done
Need to always be doing
Avoid wasting time
What does it mean when
You’re easy to distract from
What you want to do?
Got meetings today
And more meetings tomorrow
They are what I do
I'll stop responding
Won't even open Outlook
Get so much more done
It's seven degrees
Freezing while the car warms up
Why do we live here?
Happy times and sad
Showing love and getting mad
All shape how they grow
Building a network
Is like planting seeds and not
Knowing what will grow
Fighting with my wife
Both wanting diff’rent things from
Lives that take not give
Stuck in Los Cabos
Part of the great adventure
Take it as it comes
Up at two-thirty
A tired voice questions why
Routine keeps me calm
Must find time to think
Write down your thoughts and decide
What needs to be said
Cutting the budget
A chance to show leadership
Will I measure up?
Walking the same path
Thought it would lead to new places
Fear it’s a circle
Going on a trip
Out of touch but focused in
A balancing act
A single concept
Boiled down to its essence
Haiku distills truth
Gliding on the ice
So easy and effortless
Except when I fall
Shovel scrapes the ground
Once, twice, a thousand more times
Snowfall will return
Stuck in an hourglass
Boomers above, Y below
Will X choose to lead?
Nine hundred emails
And here I was wigging out
With just two screens full
If the time before
Equals the time after, what
Effect can I have?
Rush to get things done
Serve your masters; make tough calls
But don’t hurt feelings
Winter air is dry
Scratchy throats in the morning
Knuckles cracked and red
