THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT LIFE SO FAR (With Apologies to William Stafford)

Sunflowers grow through photosynthesis

but without the sun, it cannot live

Sometimes we waste time

by pondering the time that already passed

A woman divorces her husband

due to a prolonged disconnection

And realizes after she marries another man

that she lost the love of her life

Stokely Carmichael was deemed as a terrorist

yet he never committed any crime

Hendrix, Jackson, and the Beatles were musical geniuses

And they never needed to know how to read music

If I ever die, I would

Like it to be in the morning

So that the daylight illuminates my mutilated soul

That I effectively concealed when I was alive

The universe is composed of boundless galaxies

All that contain infinite light years

That seemingly never cease from existence