One Free Verse and One New Sonnet

1. Two Beats

Noise in

My head

I can’t

I won’t

Nothing

To do.

Act two

I wrote

Not safe

Your life

Is yours

Too far

To help

Let go

Let God

I care

Too much

You don’t

Hear me

Old voices

Dead air

Bury

The dead

Move on.

2. Sonnet V.

The question has turned from how to why we

Bother to survive to breathe one more day.

There will be no house or children for me,

And the career has been tossed far away.

Existing to buy and use medicines,

To demand that doctors extend my life

Through testing and treating and vitamins.

I’m nobody’s mother and no one’s wife.

And yet here I am, living on the dole,

Writing sonnets to justify being,

Trying to ignore Old Age’s high toll,

The MS challenge of unplanned peeing.

I hope I just gave you a tiny laugh.

And found a way to pass an hour’s half.