Keeping the course is a challenge. Starting with a
smile that lasts until hurt diverts and drags me down
to that, always-ready, frown. The frown is never alone.
It comes with a coterie of ploys it deploys generously
throughout the day. Negativity, never far away, comes
in play in invidious ways, sometimes staying after dark
to tincture dreams with reams of disenchantment and
disillusionment that holds me in its thrall. I awaken anxious
to sense the dawn of a bright new day blessed with
nature’s providing a clean slate once a day, ready or not!
How do you do it?! Funny, serious and profound all at once. Love, your fan, Sussn