MidiMike

This was not my first poem and song about the environment before the globe started thinking about global warming or climate change, and it was not the last.  Most people can live their life and not have a negative impact on anyone.  Most companies can do the same thing as well, and treat the community as neighbors.  Oil, tobacco, big pharmacies and a million more are not interested in you.  If this keeps up the human race could be putting Mother Earth in a life-threatening delivery and she may need to stop the birth before any more harm is done.

MIDIMike

I am chronologically challenged.  I often remember events but not in the proper time sequence.  Memories are tricky things.  Especially when memories are all you have left.

For me, some memories exist beyond time. 

They are. 

They remain. 

Some people are like that, no matter how often or rarely do we meet.

MIDIMike

There are some interesting concepts here and some very fluid lines in this piece, but I really don’t know what the message is.  I mean I have the usual references to social injustice, the system, the powerful and all, but not sure where it was headed.  I must have worked hard on the rhyming scheme though!

MIDIMike

It was clear early in grade school that I was not like the other boys in a lot of ways. My parents were smart, and they didn’t treat us like babies. We learned fast. The metoo movement was founded in 2006, but did not make it to the national scene until 2017. I guess this was a supportive song before I knew the movement existed.
In some ways, most guys were ‘an easy act to follow’. But in reality, too many women think ALL men are like that. Sometimes they just find out too late. So they are always suspicious. Always trying to catch you in a lie. Trying to separate you from others that might be considered ‘a threat’ or temptation.
You end up defending yourself for nothing all the time, because in their eyes, all guys are guilty – eventually.

MIDIMike