May 1st - Fail

Just when I think I am getting somewhere
Some show-off scales Mount Everest.
Tell me it is freezing up there!
How yesterday is the day-glo vest?

Then there are all those Olympic medalists
Got muscles up the yin-yang.
Your swimmers, your runners, your pedalists.
I exercised once, and it stang.

As for the geniuses that invent stuff,
Look where they have gotten us.
Another Bill Gates? Shut up!
Last upgrade unleashed a hippopotamus!

Turn off the TV if there's cliff-diving.
Tight-wire walk, no. Boxing, no.
Never been into Death-defying.
More popcorn? Chips? Yo--??

ANGEL OR DEVIL?

Devil are you?
You who twists my thoughts around,
who makes me want to cry
and hides away each time someone tries to care.
You who never listens to a single word I say.
or lets me feel the love that others give,
who will not let me laugh.
You who always talks too much
and is afraid of love;
who beats me up
and always, always gives up.

Angel are you?
Who cares about the world wanting to make it right.
You who makes me happy
and opens up and trusts.
You who always listens to everything I say
and lets me feel the love that others give.
You who lets me laugh and sing
and brighten someone?s day;
who always listens to others problems
and understands their pain.
You who believes in love,
who is not hard on me.
You who never, never gives up.

Angel and devil, I'm just me.

Thanking the Devil

You and I are crossing and counting

the upturned slabs of the precincts of

the temple with the ruling deities,

the cracks in the redbrick peeping walls,

unwiped, augmented saffron marks,

bespeak of the decor and devotion,

in the ageless, uncared construction,

our visits are a daily routine and ritual,

immersed in the sacred waters of

unstinted faith and devotion,

stabbing enemies are stabbing and stabbing

at the back, smiling smiling,

the ultimate mounting mysteries

Unraveled, unlocked,

Allahuddin?s lamp glows, in the

Surrounding dark.

How often we crossed the long ropes

Carefully fearing to be snakes,

We thank the harrowing devils

for making us cling to God.
-Mike