Popcorn

Everyone likes

Vanilla ice cream

But chocolate 

Is better

So they take chocolate

And the vanilla ice cream

Just sits there

And melts

Until it's just a puddle

Everyone likes

As a little kid

People used to tell me

How they would love

T0 get in my head

And see where my

Questions

Ideas

Thoughts

Answers

Come from

I bet they thought it would be

There is a different version of me that leaks out,

dripping ink on these pages,

hollow and raw,

saying all my thoughts.

A flow of words that may have never left my head,

It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday- 9:00 AM, that is, when Mom made lemonade for the annual summer party at our house. Fresh-squeezed lemonade. It is sitting in a cooler on the small table in the tiny house in our backyard. 

We need more joy in this world, 

we need less of this depressing sense of life, 

when everything around us is so beautiful. 

But we only look through a gray lens to see it.