Together

Together

By dan ankers

I tried to smash two bricks to combine them

But they just broke

And all the pieces became a cloud of mist and smoke

So I poured two cups of water together, because I’m clever

But nothing new ever came of it

SO

Here I Stand Trying to Create with my Hands and My Mind

A bridge between you and me

That has never been seen

That is all me

But is still

Us

Just because

Individuality

Is a bridge

And that means that we

Can be two distinct entities

Dually.

And that’s beautiful

Because we share.

Beautiful

Beautiful

by dan ankers

I watched a boy give his ice-cream to a little girl

Who’d dropped her own

As a tiny little pearl

Of a single, glistening, darling of a tear

Ran down aside, that pristine shell of her ear.

He saw that gleaming, shimmering orb of sad dimensions

And traced its path, around the arc of her cheek

But he did not interpret this as a woeful situation

And instead he glimpsed a dream of hope in full replete

Then, without a tinge of fear

Or even one selfish thought toward his own situation

He said, “Here you go, you ten have my ice-tweam.”

This boy, fulfilled

That crying girl’s

Dream.

Bipolar Bear

Bipolar Bear

By dan ankers

The bipolar bear doesn’t care

Wait

It’s not that he doesn’t

But

It’s just that he can’t

Cause

If he chooses to be just like you then

He

Will

Surely

Fail

Because he is not like you

He is the Bipolar Bear

There are many

Things

That he does which you could judge,

But from a distance you would notice

Something different

About these instances

He’s good at creating

Room

For you to Readjust in

I know this because I am

Him