Optimism

Is grass supposed to smell like bleach?

Is air supposed to hurt your teeth?

Is sleep supposed to make you stiff and sore?

Are toddlers supposed to drink mountain dew 

out of a bottle?

Are dolphins supposed to die from plastic ingestion?

Why is the size of the allen wrench you need 

never the one you own?

Why would anyone make a toilet paper holder

that is tightened with an allen wrench?

Do rednecks really have to take their fucking shirt off 

for every picture?

Does the dogshit bag always have to have a hole in it?

Are children supposed to be separated from their parents

and held in concentration camps?

Must every car I buy get scratched 

within the first two weeks I own it?

Do my richest clients always have to be 

the slowest ones to pay me?
How many white supremacists does it take
to turn on a light bulb?

How many days 

will my girl leave her socks 

on the bathroom floor?

Will my grandmother still remember me 

when I see her next?

Are the hardest conversations 

always put off the longest

sometimes until its too late?

Must the ones we love the most 

live the farthest away?

Will the freshly peanut buttered toast 

always land face down

on the floor

in dog fur?

Will I wake up grumpy every morning 

for the rest of my life?

If I am being a little bitch 

and my internal observer is aware 

that I am being a little bitch

and I have the tools and comprehension 

to stop being a little bitch

but I still cant stop being a little bitch

Will I be a little bitch forever?

If my beloved says me she loves me

tells me every day that I am beautiful

and says she will never leave me

Does she really love me?

Will she never leave me?

If I keep trying to be gentle

and learn how to love her better

trying not to hurt her

Will I never hurt her?

When the tornado passes through

destroying everything in its path

Will the birds still land 

upon the twisted branches

and sing to us in the morning?

Yes, they will.