Family

They say blood is thicker than water, maybe that’s why it is so lethal. It is dense in its value. Everyone thinks family is the most important thing. We are reminded again and again… “family comes first” or…”your family will always be there for you.” I wish that were true. If it were, maybe there wouldn’t be so many serial killers who decide to lash out and kill because their parents hated the site of them and treated them like crap, maybe children can go sleep without the fear of seeing their father/mother/uncle/cousin/brother come in their room to touch them, maybe men would not paint the walls red with their wives blood when they swing their hands across the same face they fell for and call it love. Blood is thicker than water and worse than poison.

Fear for us

Fear for us
I am from Venus
He is from Mars
I think today of tomorrow's plans
He thinks the world is an ocean
And in each rhythmic wave
He floats
But I don't rock that boat
Because in the ocean
there is commotion
There are sharks and storms
Floats can burst
Boats can sink
So I rather stay in dry land
Where gravity keeps me grounded

I fear for us
He is a man who dreams of his destination
But has no idea of his direction
I am a woman with a laid out plan
And an ambitious mind
And I fear that he might not keep up
But even though he is from Mars
And doesn’t know what he wants
And I am from Venus
With ambitious plans
I like to dance
To the rhythm his waves of uncertainty
But I must walk further in to land
Far from the shore
And the father I walk
The less the rhythms are heard