A Life - A Poem

 

A LIFE

What is a life: without sunshine streaming through

a leafy tree outside your window, without the easy

laughter of children made happy by the sight of a

squirrel in the yard, without the night breezes

flowing through a window screen while the moon

grins above, without a place to run free; no need

for cyclone fences or ugly concrete;

the dangers simple ones put there by Nature for a

purpose; no strangers peering in, no nosy neighbors

or prying relatives – this is not a life! (written

 in the '80s when we lived in a trailer park)